5×15: Wellcome Book Prize

5 speakers 15 minutes each

The 2018 Wellcome Book Prize celebrates the many ways in which literature can illuminate the breadth and depth of our relationship with health, medicine, and illness. The shortlist includes: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Stay With Me), Lindsey Fitzharris (The Butchering Art), Kathryn Mannix (With the End in Mind), Mark O’Connell (To Be a Machine), Sigrid Rausing (Mayhem: A memoir), and Meredith Wadman (The Vaccine Race).