Sayantani DasGupta

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Sayantani DasGupta
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Born1970
Columbus, Ohio
Alma materBrown University
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine www.sayantanidasgupta.com
Scientific career
FieldsNarrative medicine and Public health
InstitutionsSarah Lawrence College
Columbia University

Sayantani DasGupta (Bengali : সায়ন্তনী দাশগুপ্ত, born 1970)[1] is an American physician and author of Indian heritage.

Early life and education[]

DasGupta 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.[2]

Academia[]

Originally trained 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,[3] and has been featured on the cover of Ms.,[4] in O, The Oprah Magazine,[5] in documentary films[6] and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.[7]

Publications[]

DasGupta at an autographing booth at BookExpo America in 2018, promoting The Serpent's Secret

Sayantani has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms., Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das Dasgupta, on mother-daughter experiences.[8][9][10] 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.[11] Her debut middle-grade novel, The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1) published by Scholastic came out in February, 2018. Her second book, Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2) published in February, 2019, entered the New York Times Bestseller list in its debut week.[12]

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 978-0-73918-7425.
  • The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1). Scholastic. 2018. ISBN 978-1338185706.
  • The Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2). Scholastic. 2019. ISBN 978-1338185737.

References[]

  1. ^ From:The Family of Women Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Jones, Carolyn; (1999). The Family of Women. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-0338-0.
  2. ^ "Columbia University, Narrative Medicine Faculty", Sayantani DasGupta
  3. ^ "The Healing Power of Story" Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY's ONLINE ARCHIVE OF INNOVATION STORIES
  4. ^ Ms Magazine[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Narrative Medicine - Patients Telling Their Stories. Oprah.com.
  6. ^ "Latching On" by Katza Esson
  7. ^ Literature and Medicine
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Shah, Sonia, ed. (1998). "Bringing Up Baby - Raising a 'Third World' Daughter in the 'First World'". Dragon Ladies. South End Press. pp. 182. ISBN 978-0896085756.
  10. ^ 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. pp. 324. ISBN 0-8135-2726-0.
  11. ^ Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results,
  12. ^ New York Times Best Sellers- Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
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