Sayantani DasGupta

Sayantani DasGupta
Born	1970 Columbus, Ohio
Fields	Narrative medicine and Public health
Institutions	Sarah Lawrence College Columbia University
Alma mater	Brown University Johns Hopkins School of Medicine www.sayantanidasgupta.com

Sayantani DasGupta (Bengali : সায়ন্তনী দাশগুপ্ত, born 1970)^[1] is an American physician and author of Indian heritage. She grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

Academia

Trained originally in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education,^[2] and has been featured on the cover of Ms. Magazine,^[3] in Oprah Magazine,^[4] in documentary films^[5] and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.^[6]

Publications

Sayantani has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms. Magazine, Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das Dasgupta, on mother-daughter experiences.^[7][8][9] She is the co-author of a book on Bengali folktales, author of a memoir about her education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-editor of an award winning collection of women's illness narratives.^[10]

Bibliography

• The demon slayers and other stories: Bengali folk tales. Interlink Books. 1995. ISBN 978-1-56656-156-3.
• Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor. Random House. 1999. ISBN 978-0-44900-309-1.
• Stories of illness and healing: women write their bodies. Kent State University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-87338-916-7.
• Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life. Rowman & Littlefield. 2014. ISBN 978-0-73918-742-5.

References

1. From:The Family of Women, Jones, Carolyn; Lyon, Todd (1999). The Family of Women. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-0338-0.
2. "The Healing Power of Story", BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY's ONLINE ARCHIVE OF INNOVATION STORIES
3. Ms Magazine
4. Narrative Medicine - Patients Telling Their Stories - Oprah.com
5. "Latching On" by Katza Esson
6. Literature and Medicine
7. Das Dasgupta, Shamita, ed. (1998). "Sex, Lies, and Women's Lives - An intergenerational dialogue". A Patchwork Shawl:Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Rutgers University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0813525181.
8. Shah, Sonia, ed. (1998). "Bringing Up Baby - Raising a 'Third World' Daughter in the 'First World'". Dragon Ladies. South End Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0896085756.
9. Song, Min; Shen Wu, Jean Yu-Wen, eds. (2000). "Women in Exile: Gender Relations in the Asian Indian Community in the United States". Asian American Studies - A Reader. Rutgers University Press. p. 324. ISBN 0-8135-2726-0.
10. Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results,