{"id":813,"date":"2015-03-09T16:18:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=813"},"modified":"2015-03-09T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:18:57","slug":"the-reading-room-the-wellcome-book-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/03\/09\/the-reading-room-the-wellcome-book-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reading Room: The Wellcome Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist for the Wellcome Book Prize was announced today (<a href=\"http:\/\/wellcomebookprize.org\/\">http:\/\/wellcomebookprize.org\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Awarded annually, and open to works of fiction and nonfiction, the prize focuses on books that have some aspect of medicine, illness or health as their central theme.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s shortlist includes the following six titles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Iceberg<\/em> by Marion Coutts<\/li>\n<li><em>Do No Harm<\/em> by Henry Marsh<\/li>\n<li><em>All My Puny Sorrows<\/em> by Miriam Toews<\/li>\n<li><em>Bodies of Light<\/em> by Sarah Moss<\/li>\n<li><em>The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being<\/em> by Alice Roberts<\/li>\n<li><em>My Age of Anxiety<\/em> by Scott Stossel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Reading Room has already featured reviews of <em>The Iceberg<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/01\/09\/the-reading-room-a-review-of-marion-couttss-the-iceberg\/\">https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/01\/09\/the-reading-room-a-review-of-marion-couttss-the-iceberg\/<\/a>) and <em>Do No Harm<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/02\/10\/the-reading-room-a-review-of-henry-marshs-do-no-harm\/\">https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/02\/10\/the-reading-room-a-review-of-henry-marshs-do-no-harm\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Reviews of\u00a0the remaining four shortlisted titles to follow, before the winner is announced on April 29!<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The shortlist for the Wellcome Book Prize was announced today (http:\/\/wellcomebookprize.org\/) Awarded annually, and open to works of fiction and nonfiction, the prize focuses on books that have some aspect of medicine, illness or health as their central theme. This year\u2019s shortlist includes the following six titles: The Iceberg by Marion Coutts Do No [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2015\/03\/09\/the-reading-room-the-wellcome-book-prize\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}