Price: $29.95
Page Count: 180
Publication Date: June 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77258-332-8
From Band Aid to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of medicine is a collection of not-often talked about personal stories and deeply thought-provoking research essays, which don’t fail to hit home. A must read for anyone in or interacting with the health care system!
- Franziska Miller, MD
This book is an enjoyable read for all women in healthcare. The stories are topical, and I have no doubt people will make connections with their own experiences. Although the stories are based in medicine, females in other health professions would also find common ground.
- Dr. Wendy A. Stewart here they are: MD,MMEd,PhD,FRCPC
Associate Professor and Director of Humanities
Dalhousie University, New Brunswick
This diverse and engaging collection invites us to listen to the experiences of health care practitioners, academics, and women who “mother” in various ways—many occupying more than one of these roles at the same time. From Band-Aids to Scalpels raises complex questions about the ways of knowing and being in the world formed at the tense intersection of medicine and maternity.
- Michele Byers.
Professor Women & Gender Studies
Saint Mary's University
Saint Mary's University is in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the original Mi'kmaq People.
Introduction: Dr. Rohini Bannerjee & Dr. Karim Mukhida
Chapter 1 Dr. Kimberly Harper ~ Implicit Bias, Visual Rhetoric, and Black Maternal Health: Understanding the Real Risk Factor
Chapter 2: Dr. Arundhati Dhara ~ Family and Family Practice: The Mothering in Family Medicine
Chapter 3: Dr. Catherine Ma ~ And who are you?? One Chinese mother’s journey from advocating for her children to maternal empowerment
Chapter 4: Dr. Ariel Watson ~ UNTRUSTWORTHY BODIES
Chapter 5: Dr. Sharon McCutcheon ~ Dr. Mom Meets the Brain Surgeon
Chapter 6: Celeste E. Orr and Amanda D. Watson ~ “Usually the mother:”
Dilation and the Medical Management of Intersex Children
Chapter 7: Anna Johnson ~ An intersection of motherhood and chronic illness
Chapter 8: Erin Northrup ~ Mother Heal Thyself
Chapter 9: Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan ~ To be or not to be a woman in medicine
Chapter 10: Dr. Hannah Feiner ~ Mommy’s Operations: Introduction
Chapter 11: Dr. Sally Bird ~ Inner Turmoil: The Interconnectedness of Mothering and Doctoring
Chapter 12: Darryn Wellstead ~ Narratives of mothers’ medical experiences on the internet:
A challenge to medical dominance?
Chapter 13: Dr. Alekhya Das ~ sha-reer (body), ka-mee (deficiency), and kum-joa-ree (weakness): Articulations/interpretations of Pregnancy and Childbirth in a Marginalized Community in India.
Chapter 14: Rochelle Hannah Davidson ~ “There’s just not enough out there:”
The Role of Scarcity in Framing Postpartum Depression
Chapter 15: Dr. Jeannette Wogaing ~ Maternity among female physicians in Cameroon: crossroads between medical knowledge and obstetrical experience
Born and raised in Dartmouth, NS, Dr. Rohini Bannerjee is an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, as well as a Faculty member of the Asian Studies Women and Gender Studies programs at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is also the Graduate Coordinator for the International Development Studies Program. Her primary area of research is in contemporary Indo-Mauritian Francophone literature and Cultural Studies.
Dr. Karim Mukhida is an anesthesiologist and pain physician at Dalhousie University who was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has done clinical training in Neurosurgery and Anesthesia, a PhD in Neurobiology, and an MBA. His interests lie in neuroanesthesia, acute and chronic pain management, the medical humanities and global health.
