Join us as we book sell at this extraordinary Sisters in Crime event. Medicine is supposed to be about healing and helping but the medical world can also offer many opportunities to do harm... even kill.
Medicine is supposed to be about healing and helping but the medical world can also offer many opportunities to do harm. Irrespective of serial killers like Dr Harold Shipman, the drugs, pharmaceutical trials, surgical implements, and all the money involved means that the practice of medicine can easily attract wrong-doing. On top of this, institutional misogyny and sexism mean that hospitals and pharmaceutical companies can become scenes of (the) crime.
Three authors, Anne Buist, Jacinta Halloran, and Susan White – all medical doctors – know the issues firsthand and will tell all to host Toni Jordan.
Anne Buist is the author of four crime novels with tart noir heroine, psychiatrist Natalie King, Medea’s Curse (shortlisted for the Davitt as debut and overall), Dangerous to Know, This I Would Kill For, and Locked Ward (released January) and a stand-alone rural thriller set around a postnatal depression group, The Long Shadow.
Jacinta Halloran is the author of the novels Dissection, shortlisted for the 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript; Pilgrimage, shortlisted for the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award; and The Science of Appearances. Her new novel, Resistance, was published in March, and Dissection was republished in February . She is a former board member of the Stella Prize, and was a GP for many years.
Susan White'sfirst adult novel, Cut, tells the story of Carla, a young doctor striving to become the first female surgeon at a prestigious Melbourne hospital. An assault after a boozy workplace dinner leaves her traumatised and struggling to cope with the misogyny coming from every corner of her workplace.
Susan White is a clinical geneticist. She hunts for answers to undiagnosed genetic conditions in children – a kind of DNA-sleuth for kids, minus the trench coat. Susan’s writing takes the reader inside the medical world, without the boring bits. Her novel, Cut, was shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings’ Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2017.
Toni Jordan is the author of seven novels. Her most recent novel is Prettier if She Smiled More (2023).
Venue: The Rising Sun Hotel (upstairs – no lift), cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne. Free on-street parking after 6 pm.
Tickets: Entry and dinner combined charge: $60 non-members; $55 concession; $52 Sisters in Crime and Writers Victoria members, $50 under 19. Please book by 12 pm Thursday 28 July. Tickets not sold prior to the event will be available at the door for $62/$58/$55/$50. Dinner upstairs from 6.30-7.30 pm. Orders need to be in by 7 pm.
Men or ‘brothers-in-law’ welcome.
6.30-7.30 pm dinner. The panel discussion starts at 8 pm. The price includes a main course meal and the panel. Please order meals by 7 pm.
Bookings:https://www.eventbrite.com/...
Sun Bookshop stall: members receive a 10% discount
Additional information: Carmel Shute 0412 569 356 admin@sistersincrime.org.au
When
28 Jul 2023, 6:30pm – 10:00pm
Where
Rising Sun Hotel
2
Raglan St, South Melbourne 3205
2
Raglan St, South Melbourne 3205
Tickets include both panel session and dinner
