About this Event
How should medicine and society respond to patients whose illnesses resist conventional diagnosis? Drawing on The Invisible Kingdom and her own experience, Meghan O’Rourke examines the harms of disbelief and neglect, and reflects on the ethical responsibility to recognize and care for suffering even when its causes remain elusive or hard to "see."
Meghan O'Rourke is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the best-selling memoir The Long Goodbye, both of which have been widely translated. In her cultural criticism, she writes about AI, grief, the body, and unpacks oversimplified cultural narratives. Her most recent book of poems, Sun In Days, was named a Top Ten Poetry Book of the Year by the New York Times; her debut Halflife was a finalist for Britain’s Forward First Book Prize. Both a writer and an editor, she previously worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Slate, and The Paris Review, and launched the Slate Audio Book Club, one of America’s first literary podcasts. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, a Front Page award, and other honors, she is a professor of creative writing at Yale University and the editor of The Yale Review.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Emory University Center for Ethics, 1531 Dickey Drive, Atlanta, United States
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