University of Glasgow

Cicely Saunders and the Narrative Legacies of ‘Total Pain’

Academic History:

2015 - 2016: MSc Medical Humanities, King's College London

2009 - 2012: BA English Literature, Durham University

Supervisors:

Dr Gavin Miller

Professor David Clark

Research Interests:

• Philosophy of Care
• End of Life Care
• Medical Humanities
• Memory and Narrative

Previous Research Projects:

MSc dissertation on Cicely Saunders, Tom Lubbock’s Until Further Notice I Am Alive and Marion Coutts’ The Iceberg

BA dissertation on Time and Genre in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year

Scholarships:

Wellcome Trust Masters Studentship

Awards:

Jubilee Prize for undergraduate dissertation

Contact Details:

Address: M14, Maxwell House, University of Glasgow, The Crichton, Bankend Road, Dumfries, DG1 4UG

Email: j.wood.2@research.gla.ac.uk

First published: 25 September 2017