| Name: | Shroff, Dr. Farah |
| Degree: | PhD, Med, BSc |
| Academic Rank: | Adjunct Professor |
| Academic Department: | Family Practice |
| Academic Division: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Phone: | 604 682 3269 ext. 6169 |
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| Email: | fms@ece.ubc.ca |
| Research Interests: | Holistic Health and Spirituality HIV/AIDS Policy Social Justice |
| Research Projects: | Symptom-thermal methods of birth control: describing the effectiveness of natural birth control for the benefit of women’s health and reproductive well-being; focusing on primary care providers to “prescribe” this method Randomized Clinical Trial of Massage Therapy during childbirth: one of the world’s first trials using licensed massage therapists! Power Politics and the Take-Over of Holistic Health in North America—a historical analysis: this paper examines Indigenous health care and homeopathic medicine’s rise and decline in the history of Canada/USA. Zarthusti Elder Women’s Oral Herstories: this project is a collection of interviews conducted by me with elders within my community. I am working on a methodological paper right now: insider participatory action research—being experts on ourselves. I hope to create several papers and a coffee table book one day. This is a long term project! theoretical constructs of holistic health: I am working on revising this paper for publication; it brings together systems science theory with holistic medical fundamental philosophical concepts, showing the similarities and differences. |
| Selected Publications: | Book: “The New Midwifery: Reflections on Renaissance and Regulation” FM Shroff (editor), Women's Press (December 1997)
“The Joyous Yoni: A Yogic Exploration of Sexual Empowerment for Women”, Journal of Internat’l Women’s Studies, vol 8, no 4, May 2007, pp177-89: “Walking the Diversity Talk”, Health and Canadian Society, vol 2, no 1, 1999 (Peer-reviewed) “Women and AIDS: Crystallizing Social Inequities”, Social Problems in Canada. “The Social Construction of AIDS”, RFR/DFR vol 20, nos 3&4, fall/winter 1991 (reprinted in various publications) “All Colours of the Rainbow: Recently Arrived Immigrant Women of Colour and HIV/AIDS in Canada” (2005). Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Color and Indigenous Women. G. S. Harding (ed). University of Calgary Press, Calgary. “Women and Health Reform” (2000), edited by Diana Gustafson, Fernwood Press, Halifax. “Ayurveda: Mother of Indigenous Health Knowledge” (2000), edited by Dei, G and Hall, B: Indigenous Knowledge, University of Toronto Press. |
| Other: | Major Reports Research Plan for the Massage Therapy Profession (2007) Draft Public Health Plan for the Government of Nunavut (2005) People with Spinal Cord Injuries and Holistic Health (2003) Synthesis Paper on Sexual And Reproductive Health for the National Centres of Excellence for Women's Health (2002) {Revised in 2003 and co-authored with B. Clow} www.cewh-cesf.ca/en/publications/cross_cex/index.shtml Qualitative Evaluation of the Dr Peter AIDS Centre (1998) available at: http://www.drpeter.org/pdf/DrPeter_NewCareStandard.pdf |
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