Zed’s children’s book!
Zed Zha is a physician, an author, and a medical cultural critic.
Represented by Kathryn Wilms, Zed’s work-in-progress is a non-fiction book project on medical rape culture. This project has been acquired by North Atlantic Books to Shayna Keyles for publication in spring, 2026.
Her upcoming children’s book, Why We Eat Fried Peanuts: A Celebration of Family and Lunar New Year Traditions (2025), by becker&mayer! kids, is based on the true story of her great-grandmother who gave up her dignity to save a life almost 100 years ago. You can preorder here!
Zed is an active OpEd writer and medical culture critic. Her topics of interest are medical/social justice, medical ethics such as weight stigma, intersections of medicine with racism and misogyny, and reproductive rights.
In her newsletter and blog, Zed shares her vulnerability as a human and a doctor. She also writes about the remarkable stories of her mother who “stole” her back from forced adoption and her great-grandmother who sacrificed her dignity to save a life.
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Book Deal Announcement!
Book Deal Announcement!
Consented: Medical Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It is a doctor’s provocative and deeply personal diagnosis of what is wrong with medicine. Weaving together medical history, current data, and intimate patient stories, Zed writes about her own transformative journey as a patient advocate, calls for a feminist revolution in medicine, and proposes a bold, unifying vision that remedies the trust crisis in medicine.
The Newest OpEd
MedPage Today, October 23, 2024
A friend texted out of the blue: “When are you having children?”
I answered: “I am intentionally child-free.”
“Without children, what kind of legacy do you plan to leave?” They said.
My newest OpEd on MedPage Today dissects the ways we STILL can't look beyond the uterus and its childbearing potential in society and in medicine. As childfree women are under attack again, this IS personal.
Recent Features
Recent Features
Recent Blog Posts
Zed’s MedPage Today opinion piece on the importance of accessing abortions among underprivileged teens won Gold during the 24th Annual Digital Health Awards.
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