International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am Professor of Bioethics, Clinical Ethics and Medical Law at St. George's, University of London. However, I spend as much time in theatres as I do in lecture theatres. I am particularly interested in drama, theatre and narrative as means of informing, reflecting, shaping, conceptualising and challenging healthcare. I am currently working on an edited collection of essays on the broad theme of theatre and healthcare ethics. I am committed to public engagement and I have worked for the last 9 years on the BBC Radio 4 series 'Inside the Ethics Committee'. I am in the process of developing a new series with the Science and Drama units of BBC Radio 4 which will explore the ethico-legal cases and stories that have changed practice. That programme is scheduled for broadcast in Summer 2013. I write theatre reviews for Times Higher Education and I am a contributor to Radio 3's cultural and arts programme: Night Waves. Outside of working hours at St. George's, I am a voracious reader with a three novel per week habit. I write fiction and plays and I am concentrating, at the moment, on a novel set in contemporary London and the second war that led to the creation of the Democratic Republic of Congo. When writer's block strikes, I turn to my cello which continues to thwart me in my efforts to make beautiful music. You can find me on Twitter @deborahbowman where my chronic curiosity and endemic enthusiasm means I spend too much time talking about theatre, ethics, the cello, healthcare and writing.