{"id":36329,"date":"2016-03-15T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=36329"},"modified":"2017-03-23T11:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:44:30","slug":"medicine-and-literature-the-2016-wellcome-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/03\/15\/medicine-and-literature-the-2016-wellcome-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine and literature: The 2016 Wellcome Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36331\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016books-300x244.png\" alt=\"wellcome_2016books\" width=\"155\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016books-300x244.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016books.png 761w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/>The role of medicine in our lives, and in literature, is the key theme explored by the books shortlisted for this year\u2019s Wellcome Book Prize, according to Joan Bakewell who chaired the awards judging panel.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the shortlist, Bakewell said the role of medicine in our lives was a \u201cdynamic and growing genre of literature and [that] it responds to the increasing eagerness of the public to learn more about how our bodies and our minds work.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-36330 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016-1024x463.png\" alt=\"wellcome_2016\" width=\"508\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016-1024x463.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016-768x347.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_2016.png 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted non-fiction books, as described by Wellcome Book Prize judge and author Sathnam Sanghera, are;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_neurotribes-195x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_neurotribes\" width=\"79\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_neurotribes-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_neurotribes-300x461.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_neurotribes.png 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 79px) 100vw, 79px\" \/><em>Neurotribes<\/em> by Steve Silberman (Allen &amp; Unwin)<br \/>\n\u201cA deeply researched, fantastically narrated book on autism. It tells the story of the key figures who fought to bring about better understanding of autism. It also catalogues the horrors that autistic individuals have faced until very recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36333\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_lastact-192x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_lastact\" width=\"86\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_lastact-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_lastact-300x468.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_lastact.png 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 86px) 100vw, 86px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Last Act of Love<\/em> by Cathy Rentzenbrink (Picador)<br \/>\n\u201cWhile it does tell the horrific and heartbreaking story of a young life and a happy family being destroyed by a traffic accident, it is also warm and affectionate and very funny. I think all the judges cried but we also all laughed. The book is also incredibly timely in the questions it raises about medical ethics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36335\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_outrun-191x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_outrun\" width=\"65\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_outrun-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_outrun-651x1024.png 651w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_outrun-300x472.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_outrun.png 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 65px) 100vw, 65px\" \/><em>The Outrun<\/em> by Amy Liptrot (Canongate)<br \/>\n\u201cA memoir about alcoholism and recovery and although there have been many such books it tackles the subject in a totally original way, with Liptrot using meditation on place to contrast between Hackney, where she was most ill, and the wilds of Orkney, where she goes to recover, to convey how alcoholism can destroy your sense of self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36336\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_inhead-194x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_inhead\" width=\"139\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_inhead-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_inhead-661x1024.png 661w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_inhead-300x465.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_inhead.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><em>It\u2019s All in Your Head<\/em> by Suzanne O\u2019Sullivan (Chatto &amp; Windus)<br \/>\n\u201cSuzanne is a consultant at the national hospital of neurology and neurosurgery in London. This, her first book, is an account of her experience of over 20 years of the many conditions that might be dismissed by some as psychosomatic. It may sound dry but it is a rare thing for a book, ostensibly about medicine; it is as addictive and compelling as a really good box set. It makes you rethink some of your closest relationships and wonder about some of the people you know best. It makes you appreciate that medicine is as much an art as a science, and above all it is a book ultimately about love and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shortlisted fiction books, as described by Wellcome Book Prize judge and novelist Tessa Hadley, are;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-36338\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_signs-185x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_signs\" width=\"98\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_signs-185x300.png 185w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_signs-300x487.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_signs.png 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 98px) 100vw, 98px\" \/><em>Signs for Lost Children<\/em> by Sarah Moss (Granta)<br \/>\n\u201cSet in the 1880s, [it is] about a couple of newly-weds. The husband goes off to Japan and the wife remains behind and works in a women\u2019s asylum in Cornwall. The book is deliciously sensuous. It sounds a little dry from the description but it\u2019s a book of colour and light and lovely objects in the middle of some sad things. By putting Japan against the Cornish experience, what we feel is really that there is no normal, there are just ways that we chose to imagine we are normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36339\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_playthings-214x300.png\" alt=\"wellcome_playthings\" width=\"76\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_playthings-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_playthings-300x421.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/03\/wellcome_playthings.png 673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\" \/><em>Playthings<\/em> by Alex Pheby (Galley Beggar Press)<br \/>\n\u201cIs based on one of Freud\u2019s actual cases. A judge in Dresden who had three terrible episodes of severe mental illness . . . two of which he surfaced from and Freud wrote about. The third is the one Alex Pheby takes . . . he describes how perception is turned upside down and manages to make that feel real and present to the reader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel judging the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize, which is worth \u00a330 000, also included Frances Balkwill, professor of cancer biology at Barts Cancer Institute, and Damian Barr, a writer and columnist. The winner will be announced on Monday 25 April.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<strong>Abi Rimmer<\/strong>\u00a0is BMJ Careers news reporter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The role of medicine in our lives, and in literature, is the key theme explored by the books shortlisted for this year\u2019s Wellcome Book Prize, according to Joan Bakewell who [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/03\/15\/medicine-and-literature-the-2016-wellcome-book-prize\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors-at-large"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Medicine and literature: The 2016 Wellcome Book Prize - 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