Jena Webb

Jena Webb has a PhD in Geography from McGill University and a background in Biology. She is director of programmes at the Canadian Community of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health and a research professional. Her research and teaching specializes in the links between health, society and ecosystems. She is currently working on research projects looking at the impact of the mental load, especially the “green” mental load, on women’s health and adolescent’s exposure to carcinogens. Her literary interests are in stories that connect nature and health into blueprints for more harmonious relationships. She lives just north of Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) with her partner and three children.

All That is Left is the Air

Rose had always been a profoundly uncurious person. Which is not the same thing as being stupid. Conventional you would say. To be frank, she went into medicine for the money. Yet, the allure of convention also prompted her to become a doctor. Medicine is prescriptive, not only in terms of the prescriptions doled out to the patient, but also in the actions dictated by the medical canon for the physician.
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