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- The Crafting of Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, November 29, 2024 December 21, 2024first published in Women Writers, Women’s Books https://booksbywomen.org/the-crafting-of-inspired-and-outraged-the-making-of-a-feminist-physician/ By Alice Rothchild In 2005, in the midst of two years of severe back pain and an arduous 18-month recovery from a spinal fusion, I received the suggestion from a friend and former editor to write a book on health and human rights in Israel/Palestine. I had been co-leading ...
- Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild: essay for Women’s History Network, November 25, 2024 December 21, 2024first published https://womenshistorynetwork.org/inspired-and-outraged-the-making-of-a-feminist-physician/ My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a first-generation Jewish family, coming of age in the 1960s, and my embrace of feminism as I encountered outrageous contradictions and outright sexism in college, medical school, and residency. It is both ...
- On Becoming a Peacemaker in a World of Trouble, from Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth December 21, 2024Robert Shetterly has published a book titled Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth, Oct 2024, and I am honored to have my portrait included and to have a featured essay. (see below) In my forties, I felt a need to grapple with the topic of Israel/Palestine, to understand the fraught issues imbued with ...
- Inspired and Outraged makes Ms Feminist Know-It-All reading list November 7, 2024November 2024 Reads for the Rest of Us This free-verse autobiography is unique, compelling, enraging and inspiring. Through engaging and passionate poetry, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist Alice Rothchild powerfully recounts her experiences fighting for gender equity in medicine, reform in health care and justice in the world. PUBLISHED 11/5/2024 by Karla J. Strand – Ms. magazine Read more about the book Share this to:
- Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council webinar: The destruction of health care in Gaza and the scientific assessment of settler colonial violence July 14, 2024first published in Mondoweiss The June 29, 2024 webinar organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, “The destruction of healthcare in Gaza: A scientific assessment of settler-colonial violence,” hosted a distinguished panel that established important framing and outlined data on the genocide in Gaza. Dr. Bram Wispelwey, co-director of the Palestine Program for Health and Human ...
- Can Health Care Personnel Speak Out on Health and Human Rights Issues in Gaza? July 1, 2024first published in Health and Human Rights Journal In the United States, the right of medical personnel to speak out about the ongoing assault on Gaza and the urgent need for a ceasefire is under threat. Similarly, an article in The Lancet calls out the reluctance of medical professional organizations, journals, and lobbies to take any meaningful stand against ...
- Where is Palestine in children’s literature and why should we care? June 27, 2024First published in Medium As a social justice activist and writer on the topic of Israel/Palestine, I became interested in the lack of Palestinian lives and narratives in children’s literature in 2016 when a Quaker teacher suggested I write a book on Palestine for kids. This issue is even more critical now as students, their teachers and ...
- Uncovering Inconvenient Truths: A Review of Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands May 29, 2024first published on Consequence Forum Uncovering Inconvenient Truths: A Review of Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands By Alice Rothchild Linda Dittmar’s Tracing Homelands is a particularly important read following the October 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel and, with significant support of its Jewish citizens, the genocidal response of the Israeli military. Frequent media reports attempt to describe this conflagration as if ...
- The Link: Ceasefire now March 26, 2024Alice contributes to the February 2024 version of the The Link, titled “Ceasefire now” Published by Americans for Middle East Understanding, Inc. View Volume 57, Issue 1 of The Link Share this to:
- For Gaza’s Pregnant Women and Newborns, the War Will Never Be Over – January 9, 2024 February 15, 2024Leaving Gaza City in November.Credit…Mohammed Dahman/Associated Press first published in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/09/opinion/children-mothers-pregnant-gaza.html By Alice Rothchild Dr. Rothchild is a retired obstetrician and gynecologist, an author, a filmmaker and a former assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. After Israel began its invasion of Gaza shortly after Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7, Aya Khrais — a pregnant 26-year-old dentist, ...