Sayantani Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayantani Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayantani |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
Embodiment in [Critical] Auto|biography Studies
Escribo con la tinta de mi sangre.1—Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New MestizaEmbodiment is central to all auto|biography. All auto|biographical subjects necessarily have bodies that
The Space That Difference Makes
Visionary medicine
Medical students across the USA have increasingly made the medical institution a place for speculating racially just futures. From die-ins in Fall 2014 to silent protests in response to racially motivated police brutality, medical schools have responded to the public health crisis that is racial injustice in the USA. Reading science fiction may benefit healthcare practitioners who are already invested in imagining a more just, healthier futurity.…
Christiane Amanpour and the Quest for the Jewish Egg
Feminist Studies 41, no. 3. © 2015 by Sayantani DasGupta 651 Sayantani DasGupta Christiane Amanpour and the Quest for the Jewish Egg Whoever adds one Jewish soul is considered as having created an entire world. —Maimonides An Asian American or African American egg results in babies with obvious genetic traits, but what exactly makes an egg Jewish? —Caroline Binham, “What Makes an Egg Jewish?”1 I. Chicken or the Egg First and foremost, I blame Chr…
Editors' Preface
Literature and medicine, as a field of inquiry and practice, has led to important changes in the lived experience of illness and the day-to-day enterprise of caring for those who seek health care. The clinical legacy of literature and medicine begins from a ground-floor recognition that experiencing and treating sickness are language-using events. From here, we move spirally toward original sightings of the deep events of illness, health, and car…
Better
Reviewed by: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes of Performance, and: How Doctors Think Sayantani DasGupta (bio) Atul Gawande. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes of Performance. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. 273 pp. Hardcover, $24. Jerome Groopman. How Doctors Think. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 320 pp. Hardcover, $26. Not so long ago, most of the writing associated with doctors was limited to illegible scribbles on prescription pads. Physician-write…
How to Catch the Story but Not Fall Down
Central to the work of doctoring is the ability to elicit, interpret, and act upon the stories of patients. Yet these tasks of effective communication and care often fail with patients whose ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, gender, or sexual identities differ from those of the physician and the traditional medical establishment. Although efforts to broaden medical curricula often include teaching endeavors that fall under the heading of "cultur…
Being John Doe Malkovich
In the context of evidence-based science, where all truth has become knowable though rigorous experimentation and interpretation, the ambiguity and complexity of patient stories render them too often at the margins of medical practice. Stories that are not corroborated by "scientific evidence" are "false" and their tellers deemed "bad historians." In the increasingly technical world of medicine, this logic is in danger of becoming extended to alm…
Medical Education for Social Justice
Personal Illness Narratives
Reflective writing is one established method for teaching medical students empathetic interactions with patients. Most such exercises rely on students' reflecting upon clinical experiences. To effectively elicit, interpret, and translate the patient's story, however, a reflective practitioner must also be self-aware, personally and professionally. Race, gender, and other embodied sources of identity of practitioners and patients have been shown t…
Reading Bodies, Writing Bodies
Narrative medicine is a teaching methodology that is uniquely suited to the openly ideological teaching of antiracism, antisexism, and anticlassism. This article is based on a medical school humanities seminar on women's illness narratives that was involved in this sort of cultural critique. The seminar was framed as a course on reading and writing the body. The mind/body dichotomy not only is what differentiates mindful physicians from body-focu…
An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism
Embodiment in [Critical] Auto|biography Studies
Escribo con la tinta de mi sangre.1—Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New MestizaEmbodiment is central to all auto|biography. All auto|biographical subjects necessarily have bodies that
Visionary medicine
Medical students across the USA have increasingly made the medical institution a place for speculating racially just futures. From die-ins in Fall 2014 to silent protests in response to racially motivated police brutality, medical schools have responded to the public health crisis that is racial injustice in the USA. Reading science fiction may benefit healthcare practitioners who are already invested in imagining a more just, healthier futurity.…
An Introduction to Tantric Buddhism
Reading Bodies, Writing Bodies
Narrative medicine is a teaching methodology that is uniquely suited to the openly ideological teaching of antiracism, antisexism, and anticlassism. This article is based on a medical school humanities seminar on women's illness narratives that was involved in this sort of cultural critique. The seminar was framed as a course on reading and writing the body. The mind/body dichotomy not only is what differentiates mindful physicians from body-focu…
Personal Illness Narratives
Reflective writing is one established method for teaching medical students empathetic interactions with patients. Most such exercises rely on students' reflecting upon clinical experiences. To effectively elicit, interpret, and translate the patient's story, however, a reflective practitioner must also be self-aware, personally and professionally. Race, gender, and other embodied sources of identity of practitioners and patients have been shown t…
How to Catch the Story but Not Fall Down
Central to the work of doctoring is the ability to elicit, interpret, and act upon the stories of patients. Yet these tasks of effective communication and care often fail with patients whose ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic, gender, or sexual identities differ from those of the physician and the traditional medical establishment. Although efforts to broaden medical curricula often include teaching endeavors that fall under the heading of "cultur…
Being John Doe Malkovich
In the context of evidence-based science, where all truth has become knowable though rigorous experimentation and interpretation, the ambiguity and complexity of patient stories render them too often at the margins of medical practice. Stories that are not corroborated by "scientific evidence" are "false" and their tellers deemed "bad historians." In the increasingly technical world of medicine, this logic is in danger of becoming extended to alm…
Medical Education for Social Justice
Better
Reviewed by: Better: A Surgeon’s Notes of Performance, and: How Doctors Think Sayantani DasGupta (bio) Atul Gawande. Better: A Surgeon’s Notes of Performance. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007. 273 pp. Hardcover, $24. Jerome Groopman. How Doctors Think. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 320 pp. Hardcover, $26. Not so long ago, most of the writing associated with doctors was limited to illegible scribbles on prescription pads. Physician-write…
Editors' Preface
Literature and medicine, as a field of inquiry and practice, has led to important changes in the lived experience of illness and the day-to-day enterprise of caring for those who seek health care. The clinical legacy of literature and medicine begins from a ground-floor recognition that experiencing and treating sickness are language-using events. From here, we move spirally toward original sightings of the deep events of illness, health, and car…
Christiane Amanpour and the Quest for the Jewish Egg
Feminist Studies 41, no. 3. © 2015 by Sayantani DasGupta 651 Sayantani DasGupta Christiane Amanpour and the Quest for the Jewish Egg Whoever adds one Jewish soul is considered as having created an entire world. —Maimonides An Asian American or African American egg results in babies with obvious genetic traits, but what exactly makes an egg Jewish? —Caroline Binham, “What Makes an Egg Jewish?”1 I. Chicken or the Egg First and foremost, I blame Chr…
The Space That Difference Makes
Visionary medicine
Medical students across the USA have increasingly made the medical institution a place for speculating racially just futures. From die-ins in Fall 2014 to silent protests in response to racially motivated police brutality, medical schools have responded to the public health crisis that is racial injustice in the USA. Reading science fiction may benefit healthcare practitioners who are already invested in imagining a more just, healthier futurity.…
Embodiment in [Critical] Auto|biography Studies
Escribo con la tinta de mi sangre.1—Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New MestizaEmbodiment is central to all auto|biography. All auto|biographical subjects necessarily have bodies that
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Psychology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)