Sexual Harassment between Doctors
Healing Medical Cultures Around the World
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-009-67306-8 (ISBN)
Description
Sexual harassment between doctors is a common problem hiding in plain sight. Studies around the world consistently find that prevalence is well above zero. Harassment is more common when the survivor is still in training, and it is more likely to be experienced by doctors living with multiple marginalisations. This book combines expert analysis and commentary from various interdisciplinary perspectives. It privileges the voices of survivors, whose experience helps to inform our understanding of a complex problem. With contributors in locations ranging from Austria to Zambia, the book spans multiple languages, sociocultural contexts, and academic disciplines and offers unique globally contextualised perspectives. It gives readers a holistic understanding of sexual harms between doctors and demonstrates how silence prevents effective evidence-based management of sexual harassment. This volume helps to break the silence and offers potential solutions in discrete cultural contexts. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
914 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-67306-8 (9781009673068)
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Louise Stone | Rosalind H. Searle | Elizabeth Waldron
Sexual Harassment between Doctors
Healing Medical Cultures Around the World
Book
approx. 01/2026
Cambridge University Press
€148.20
Not yet published
Persons
Louise Stone is a General Practitioner, with clinical, teaching, policy and research expertise in mental health, healthcare systems, medical education, doctors' health and professionalism. She has had senior leadership roles in Australian General Practice training and has served on the ACT Medical Board. Rosalind H. Searle is founding director of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology's Impact Incubator. She is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science (FASS), the British Psychological Society (BPS), the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), the Royal Society of Arts, and an academic fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal and Development (CIPD). Elizabeth Waldron is a Ph.D. student in psychology at the Australian National University, with a background in psychology and gender studies. They are a fierce advocate for social justice, with an interest in the ways that individual and structural factors interact to influence the way people move through the world. They have a particular interest in mental health, neurodivergence, and disability. Christine Phillips A.M. is a general practitioner and health services researcher. She leads the Social Foundations of Medicine group at the School of Medicine and Psychology, where she teaches social sciences and medicine in the medical school and the Master of Culture Health and Medicine program. Kirsty A. Douglas is a clinical GP and medical academic at the Australian National University. She was Professor and head of department of General Practice at the ANU for 10 years until 2024. Prof Douglas held several concurrent roles combining government policy advice, primary health care health services research, medical education, and clinical work in general practice in the private, not for profit and community-controlled services.
Content
Introduction Louise Stone and Elizabeth Waldron; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: context Louise Stone; 2. How to be a woman doctor: gender, performance and sexual risk Christine Phillips; 3. The role of men Rachel Roberts and Sanjiv Ahluwalia; 4. The history of workplace sexual harms Elizabeth Waldron and Louise Stone; 5. Medical workplaces Christine Phillips; 6. Medical training Louise Stone, Paul McGurgan, Rose Petrohilos, Simon Fleming, Rebecca Fisher and Tim Senior; 7. The impact of sexual harassment on survivors, colleagues and patients Michael Botha and Marie Bismark; 8. Health promotion strategies to reduce sexual harassment Rosalind H. Searle, Erica Bowen and Louise Stone; Part II. Learning from Interdisciplinary Perspectives: 9. Introduction Louise Stone; 10. Organisational behaviour Rosalind H. Searle; 11. Legal perspectives Ian Freckelton; 12. Human rights Adrienne Ringin; 13. Medical Regulation Alison Reid; 14. Medical education Louise Stone, Paul McGurgan, Rose Petrohilos, Rebecca Fisher, Simon Fleming, I. Nyoman Sutarsa, Fiona Moir and Tim Senior; 15. Therapy Leslie Flynn; 16. Integrating interdisciplinary lenses Rachel Roberts and Sanjiv Ahluwalia; Part III. Learning from International Perspectives: 17. Introduction Louise Stone; 18. Australia Louise Stone, Elizabeth Waldron and Yoo Young (Dominique) Lee; 19. Austria Heidi Siller, Lisa Kelm and Margarethe Hochleitner; 20. International medical graduates Valerie Chua and Josephine Canceri; 21. Germany Pia Djermester and Sabine Oertelt-Prigione; 22. Iran Parisa Pakdel; 23. Japan Kaori Kono, Kotoko Mizuno, Yasuhisa Nakano and Takashi Watari; 24. Malaysia Sajaratulnisah Binti Othma, Betty Yeoh Siew Peng and Christine Shamala Selvaraj; 25. Mexico Diana Guizar-Sanchez, Ricardo Martinez-Tapia, Raul Sampieri-Cabrera and Elba Campos-Lira; 26. Nigeria Dabota Yvonne Buowari; 27. Pakistan Hina Jawaid, Tehzeeb Zulfiqar and Humaira Khattak; 28. United Kingdom Clarissa Fabre; 29. United States of America Melissa Blaker, Christine Heisler, Pringl Miller, Michael S Sinha, Elizabeth Stephens, Sarah Temkin and Kate Walsh; 30. Zambia Jane Kabwe, Maria Akani, Sharon Kapambwe, Chali Mbewe Hambayi, Grace Mwila and Mwansa Ketty Lubeya; Part IV. Looking to the Future: 31. Introduction Louise Stone; 32. Cultural change from above and within: accountability in leadership Deborah Cole and Elizabeth Teisberg; 33. Advocacy from the ground up Louise Stone, Dabota Yvonne Buowari, Betty Yeoh Siew Peng, Simon Fleming and Esperanza Martinez; 34. Looking to the future: the view from learners and teachers throughout medical training May Erlinger, Becky Cox, Chelcie Jewitt, Louise Stone and Fiona Moir; 35. Recovery: rehabilitating the sense of self Jo Stubley, Victoria Lister and Louise Stone; 36. Conclusion Louise Stone and Rosalind H. Searle.