Saturday, April 23 from 1:30-2:45 CT
The Tiger Hotel ballroom
Do No Harm: Inside the Medical-Industrial Complex
There are few things as wide-reaching and impactful as health care. People access it, want access to it or have to use it at numerous times in their lives, but these systems don’t always “do no harm.” In this panel, our authors explore different aspects of the medical systems that are designed to help, but often harm, those it seeks to treat. English Professor Bill Kerwin will moderate this conversation.
Patrick Radden Keefe and Kati (along with fellow author Corey Van Landingham) will be signing after the event at Shortwave Coffee from 3:00pm-3:30pm.
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Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland. Patrick started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006 and has written investigative narrative nonfiction on a range of subjects. His work has received multiple awards and he is the recipient of multiple fellowships. He is also the writer and host of Wind of Change, an 8-part podcast series, which investigates the strange convergence of espionage and pop music during the Cold War which was named the #1 podcast of 2020 by The Guardian. He lives in New York City.
Katherine Standefer is the author of Lightning Flowers, which was a Finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction, selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice/Staff Pick, and shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Her previous work appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. She was a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good in 2018 and a Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow at The Mesa Refuge in 2017. She lives on a mesa in New Mexico with her chickens.
