Swasti Bhattacharyya

Swasti Bhattacharyya (PhD, RN) is a scholar of religious studies and applied ethics. She has over twenty years of experience examining issues from multiple philosophical and religious perspectives. Her earlier publications in bioethics reflect a synthesis of her clinical nursing practice and academic inquiry: Magical Progeny, Modern Technology (SUNY, 2006), “Shiva’s Babies: Hindu Perspectives on the Treatment of High-Risk Newborn Infants” in Religion and Ethics in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (Oxford University Press, 2019), and “Cultural Humility: A Mindset for Excellent Healthcare” in Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities (Routledge, forthcoming). Her current narrative nonfiction project combines her academic expertise with her long-term ethnographic project with the women of the Brahma Vidya Mandir Ashram, the first Gandhian ashram run by women for women in rural central India. “Missed Goodbye, or Perhaps Not” is from this project.