Dr. Mira Dakin Sadgopal is an obstetrician and gynecologist living and working in rural India and an organizer of the Jeeva Project, which, among other factors studies an indigenous midwifery practice that uses the placenta to revive newborn babies who are unable to breathe.
Join Radio Curious Host Barry Vogel, Esq. for a two-part conversation with author, Dr. Mira Dakin Sadgopal, an obstetrician and gynecologist living and working in rural India. She is an organizer of the Jeeva Project, which studies an indigenous midwifery practice that uses the placenta to revive newborn babies who are unable to breathe.
Dr. Dakin Sadgopal is the Managing Trustee of Tathapi, a small center for âWomen and Healthâ Resource Development in India, where she has lived for over 3 decades. In the 1980s Dr. Dakin Sadgopal provided medical relief to victims of the Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal. She later collaborated with women members of a landless laborerâs union to run âZaroori Dawai ki Suvidhaâ â âessential medicines facility,â a local village medical co-operative. She is the author of âIn Our Hands,â and the editor of two books, âHer Healing Heritage,â âNa Shariram Nadhiâ âMy Body is Mine.â
In 2007 Dr. Dakin Sadgopal was the recipient of the Chingari Award for Women Against Corporate Crimes, which is given annually to a woman activist who has taken up the cause of a community fighting corporate criminal activity in India. Dr. Dakin-Sadgopal grew up in California and is now citizen of India. This, the first of two interviews with Dr. Mira Dakin-Sadgopal was recorded in the studios of Radio Curious on September 6th, 2010.
In these interviews we discuss the current and traditional midwifery practices in Indiaâs rural countryside and began when I asked her about the background of the Jeeva Project.
The book Dr. Dakin Sadgopal recommends is "Anila's Journey," by Mary Finn.
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