Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Medical Humanities - seminar 10

CCWW PGR/ECR Online Seminar Series

This series examines engagements with healthcare, medical innovation, and ethics in contemporary women’s writing. It spotlights how a diverse range of contemporary women’s writing (spanning fiction, philosophy, life-writing, and many other genres) is engaging with central questions concerning public health at the intersections of the humanities and medical science and practice.  

Seminar Ten

Wellbeing in Medical Care

Cecile LeBleu (Tulane): ‘The feel-good novel and women’s wellness’

Jane Hartshorn (Kent): ‘Women’s contemporary illness poetry and the confessional: bow the lyric “I” can reinstate patient subjectivity’

Abstracts available to read here.

Author: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Speaker(s): Cecile LeBleu (Tulane) and Jane Hartshorn (Kent)

Organisations: Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Event date: Tuesday, 9 February 2021 - 5:30pm