Vulnerable Lives: Thomas Couser, ‘Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics’ and Angela Woods, ‘The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities’
Wednesday 9 April, 12:30-13:30, 2025, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Conference Room
The Edinburgh Life-Writing Network reading group this semester, kindly hosted by IASH, will be on the theme of writing ‘vulnerable lives’, particularly in the context of the medical humanities. We’ll discuss Thomas Couser’s ‘Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics’, from Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing, alongside Angela Woods’ ‘The Limits of Narrative: Provocations for the Medical Humanities’ (Medical Humanities 37: 2 (2011-12)) (both available via discovered.ed.ac.uk). The group will be chaired by Lara Maylor-Wrout, currently completing a postgraduate research project on medical memoir at Edinburgh, and due to graduate in Medicine from Cardiff and begin work as a doctor in the summer of 2025.
All welcome – please drop me a line at simon.cooke@ed.ac.uk or on the Edinburgh Life-Writing Network Teams channel if you’d like to come.
Lara Maylor-Wrout is a final year medical student at Cardiff University, due graduate and begin work as a newly qualified doctor in the summer of 2025. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2024 with first class honours after completing an intercalated BMedSci (Hons) degree in Literature and Medicine. She is currently completing a post graduate research project at the University of Edinburgh focusing on medical memoir. Lara’s research interest considers the intersection of life-writing, narrative medicine and medical ethics. Through examining the intersection of these fields, her project aims to contribute to wider medical humanities discourse regarding the value of physician narrative as an educational and clinical tool.
