About this Event
The Bones by Katrina Watson
Shelley Conway is a medical student with a keen social conscience. However, in 1970s Australia, her medical school has no social conscience at all. The coursework is inhumane, and students have to toughen up and shut up.
Shelley is shocked to realise that not only is it compulsory for every student to purchase a box of human bones, but that nobody ever asks where the bones come from.
When Shelley finds a coded message in her box of bones, she is galvanised into action. She defies the Dean’s threat to expel her from the course and goes to India to determine the origin of the bones.
What she discovers is much, much worse than she’d ever imagined.
The Bones is a gripping political mystery, wrapped up in questions of justice, trauma and humanity.
In our 150th year, hear from authors of books that centre around First Nations Healing practices, innovators and leaders in medicine and social change to M**der mysteries and novels grounded in medical history. These autobiographies, biographies and flights of fancy will inspire and amaze as fact is sometimes more surprising than fiction.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Seminar Room G03, 233 Bouverie St (Medical History Museum Building), 233 Bouverie St, Carlton, Australia
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