Love sitting down with a good book? Maybe you have more time for reading during lockdown?
SASH library and knowledge services is excited to announce the new SASH book club @SASHbookworms. We will discuss a new book every two months, focusing on the theme of medical humanities.
This month we have chosen The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot as our first book. It tells the story of a Southern American tobacco farmer whose cervical cancer cells became one of the most important tools in medicine yet were taken without her consent. We hope that it will provoke discussion on topics such as medical ethics, healthcare inequalities and access to healthcare.
Join us between 13:00 and 14:00 on Wednesday 5 May on Twitter @SASHbookworms, after which we will post a summary of the discussion points. We hope that this will create a fun shared experience and provide a window of light relief from the challenges we are facing at work.
Find out more about SASH Bookworms on the Reading Groups page.
