Following their research into sexual abuse in the medical profession, A/Prof Louise Stone, Prof Kirsty Douglas, and Prof Christine Phillips are extending their work with an international collaboration. The new book will feature research teams from over 15 countries, engaging with the sociocultural, geopolitical and historical contexts that impact the narrative journey of doctors who have been sexually harmed by other doctors.
About the project
Of Doctors By Doctors: International is a research anthology, allocating a chapter to each collaborator or group of collaborators. It is comprised of 3 key sections:
Section 1: Context
This section provides a brief holistic introduction to the issue of sexual harassment of doctors by doctors in a broadly international scope.
Chapters include:
Introduction
Intersectionality
The History of Women in Medicine
De-Gendering the Medical Curriculum
Section 2: Interdisciplinary Lenses
This section discusses the dilemmas encountered at different systemic levels when attempting to address the issue of sexual harassment of doctors by doctors.
Chapters include:
Law
Organisational Behaviour
Regulatory Bodies
Medical Education
The Role of Men
Therapy
Integrating Interdisciplinary Lenses
Section 3: International Perspectives
This section presents case studies from different countries around the globe, aiming to provide insight into the cultural, sociohistorical, and institutional influences on the narrative trajectory of sexual harassment of doctors by doctors. Each chapter features:
- a description of the cultural contexts in which the case study takes place
- the case study, loosely following the methodology of Stone, Douglas, and Phillips (2019)
- A reflective essay, using the case study and context to guide analysis and reflection on that country’s achievements, failures, barriers, and potential new directions to prevent and manage the sexual harassment of doctors by doctors.
What’s changed?
The sexual harassment of doctors by doctors involves multiple dilemmas across multiple actors, and as such, sophisticated and effective solutions require rich understandings of this complexity. By expanding the focus of their initial pilot study to include broader contextual elements, as well as implementing cross-cultural collaboration, the project aims to provide a more reflexive and in-depth understanding of the narrative trajectory of doctors who have experienced sexual violence.
Movements such as #MeToo, #NiUnaMenos, #BadMedicalStudent, and #BeyondZeroTolerance have exposed entrenched toxicity across a range of workplaces, and a variety of approaches to addressing abuse. The approach of this book is shaped by the editors’ recognition of the sociocultural and regulatory complexities embedded in sexual harm between doctors, and their deep conviction that solutions will be found through understanding contextual factors and exploring diverse perspectives. This book engages with doctors and experts in non-medical fields alike, recruiting the efforts of researchers in areas where funding for projects like this is limited or non-existent. We aim to respectfully elevate the voices of a diverse corps of researchers, on a topic so often relegated to silence.
The hope of the project leads is that this intersectional approach to international research will provide perspective on the range of factors that can influence the efficacy of efforts to address sexual assault of doctors by doctors; by generating an anthology of narratives and situating them within their cultural contexts, the project aims to provide a complex guide for policy-makers, educators, activists and the medical community alike.
Contributors to Of Doctors By Doctors: International
We believe that a core principle of attempts to address sexual violence in any community should be respectful and meaningful collaboration. We are very conscious that our core editors are all white Australian GPs, and that as such our perspectives could potentially dominate the conversation. This is why we are asking for researchers from all areas of the globe and from different disciplines to talk about their own communities, to balance our perspectives and provide as representative a book as possible.
Our contributors in Sections 1 and 2 hail from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK, and come from a range of different disciplines including law, medical regulation, organisational psychology, medical education, psychiatry, and gender medicine.
The chapters in Section 3 are organised by WHO region, and are the greatest source of diverse perspectives in this project. These chapters currently include researchers from:
Africa
- Nigeria
- Zambia
Western Pacific
- Australia
- Japan
- South Korea
America
- United States of America
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Mexico
Europe
- Austria
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- Sweden
- Russia
Confirmed Contributors
We are privileged to include in this project a number of prestigious contributors. Below we recognise the contributors who have confirmed their intentions to work on this project, listing their names and the chapters that they are undertaking.
This page is regularly updated as our work with contributors progresses.
Our Editors
A/Prof Louise Stone 
Prof Kirsty Douglas 
Prof Christine Phillips
A/Prof Louise Stone
A/Prof Louise Stone (MBBS BA MPH MQHR PhD FRACGP FACRRM) is a GP, medical educator and qualitative health researcher with a clinical, teaching and research interest in mental health. Louise is currently a GP in Canberra, the GP research co-ordinator at the Academic Unit of General Practice, Australian National University, and a Medical Advisor for GP training at the Department of Health, Commonwealth of Australia. Her recent PhD, with the Centre of Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney, explored the way novice and experienced GPs assess and manage patients with medically unexplained symptoms.
Prof Kirsty Douglas
Prof Christine Phillips
Prof Christine Phillips (MBBS BMedSc MA MPH DipEd FRACGP) is Professor of Social Foundations of Medicine at the Australian National University. She is a general practitioner with a background in anthropology and public health. For her professional work as an advocate for women in medicine she was a finalist for the ACT Woman of the Year, and her work in refugee health led to her inclusion in the National Women’s Archive.
Our Contributors
Section 1: Context
Introduction: Prof Christine Phillips, Prof Kirsty Douglas, A/Prof Louise Stone
Intersectionality: Prof Petra Verdonk
The History of Women in Medicine: Dr Clarissa Fabre
Gender in Medicine: Prof Christine Phillips
De-Gendering the Medical Curriculum: Dr Deb Colville
Section 2: Interdisciplinary Lenses
Law: Prof Ian Freckelton
Organisational Behaviour: Prof Rosalind Searle
Regulatory Bodies: Dr Alison Reid
Medical Education: Dr Janusz Janczukowicz
The Role of Men: Dr Rachel Roberts, Dr Sanjiv Ahluwalia
Therapy: A/Prof Leslie Flynn, Dr Amber Hastings-Truelove
Integrating Interdisciplinary Lenses: Dr Rachel Roberts, Dr Sanjv Ahluwalia
Section 3: International Perspectives
Africa
Nigeria: Dr Dabota Yvonne Buowari
Zambia: Dr Jane Kabwe, Dr Ketty Lubeya
Western Pacific
Australia: Prof Kirsty Douglas, Prof Christine Phillips, A/Prof Louise Stone
South Korea: Dr Bong-Ok Kim, Dr Hyun-Young Shin
Japan: Dr Takashi Watari
Europe
Germany: Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione
Sweden: Dr Marta Kisiel
Russia: Dr Larisa Skuratovskaya
Austria: Dr Heidi Siller
UK: Dr Clarissa Fabre
America
Argentina and Uruguay: Dr Ana Beatriz Cosel Zampieri
Brazil: Prof Claudia Paola Carrasco Aguilar
Mexico: Dr Diana Guizar
USA: Dr Christine Heisler, Dr Melissa Blaker, Dr Elizabeth Stephens, Dr Michael S. Sinha, Dr Kate Walsh, Dr Pringl Miller, Dr Sarah Temkin
Contributors needed
In the interest of representing a diverse and balanced set of perspectives, we welcome contact from researchers who we do not already have within our network. However, this project is being published as a book, and as such we have a limited amount of chapters available. If you are a researcher from any of the countries in the following WHO regions, please reach out to us:
Eastern Mediterranean
- Afghanistan
- Bahrain
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Libya
- Morocco
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tunisia
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
South-East Asia
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- North Korea
- India
- Indonesia
- Maldives
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
If you are a researcher in any of the above countries, please get in touch using the form at the bottom of the page.
What if my chapter isn’t on your list?
Although we have necessary restrictions on the content included in the book itself, this project is part of a broader international dialogue, and we want to continue its momentum. Therefore, if you are a researcher or an expert in a subject that is not provided for within our chapter briefs, please reach out to us, as we intend to use this site to continue to update research relating to this project even after publication of the book itself.
How you can help
Are you a researcher who wants to contribute to the book? Are you representing a foundation who wants to partner with our project?
Or are you simply passionate about the project and hoping to help out however you can?
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch by emailing us, and don’t forget to spread the word using the hashtag #ofdoctorsbydoctors
