Self-Portrait without Breasts: aesthetics and surgical experience

Featuring the work of poet Claire Best

A Research and Knowledge Transfer research event
Date	27 November 2012
Time	18:30
Place	Queens Building LT1

Part of the University of Exeters Medical Humanities Theme and the new Humanities and Social Science Research Strategy

Programme:

Poet Clare Best recites from her book Excisions (nominated for the Seamus Heaney Prize 2012), exploring preventative double mastectomy.

A panel discussion will follow with:

Professor Janet Reibstein (Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, author of Staying Alive: A Family Memoir);
Dr James Mackay (UCL, the only accredited UK Consultant Medical Oncologist specialising in clinical cancer genetics);
Dr Corinna Wagner (Department of English, Exeter, author of Pathological Bodies: Medicine and Politics);

There will be an opportunity for audience questions and answers.

This will be followed at 8pm by a wine reception alongside an exhibition of stunning photographs by Laura Stevens of Clare Best’s project in the new Forum Building.

All are welcome to attend.

Host

Hosted by Dr Andy Brown (Director of Creative Writing) for Exeter University’s Medical Humanities Theme and the new Humanities and Social Sciences Research Strategy.

Provider	Research and Knowledge Transfer

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