Watch a recording of GP and author Gavin Francis in conversation with philosopher Havi Carel and oncologist Sam Guglani. They’ll be discussing their personal and professional experiences of living with illness, getting better and the importance of convalescence.
The event is inspired by Gavin Francis’s new book, ‘Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence’.
This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be embedded in the event livestream or visible on screen for online viewers.
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The host and speakers will describe themselves and key visual elements they refer to. There will not be a separate audio description track.
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Sam Guglani is a consultant oncologist in Cheltenham, specialising in the management of lung and brain tumours. He is director of Medicine Unboxed, which illuminates the challenges and wonders of medicine through the arts. Sam also has master’s degrees in Ethics (Keele, 2009) and Creative Writing (Oxford, 2014). He is a published poet and writes for the Lancet. His debut novel, ‘Histories’, was published in 2017.
Gavin Francis is a GP and the author of eleven books of non-fiction including Adventures in Human Being (2015) Shapeshifters (2018), Intensive Care (2021), Recovery: the Lost Art of Convalescence (2022) and Free For All (2023) - a passionate defence of the principles of the NHS. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of General Practitioners. His books have been translated into twenty languages. His latest book, The Unfragile Mind, examines mental health, arguing for greater curiosity, humility, kindness, and hope in approaches to psychiatric diagnosis.
Havi Carel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She recently completed a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award, the ‘Life of Breath’. She was awarded the Health Humanities’ Inspiration Award 2018 for this work. Havi is the author of ‘Illness’ (2008, 2013, 2018), shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and of ‘Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger’ (2006). Her third monograph, ‘Phenomenology of Illness’, was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. She was selected as a ‘Best of Bristol’ lecturer in 2016.
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