Beach Blanket Bioethics 2009: Pure Dead Brilliant

September 2, 2009

Denise Mina is ABD – all but the dissertation. Her acclaimed psychological thrillers grew out of her sidelined dissertation on the ascription of mental illness to women in the criminal justice system: according to her Web site, she misspent her grant money and wrote a novel instead. This novel, Garnethill (1998), grew into a trilogy featuring Maureen O’Donnell as a woman with a history of trauma and mental illness, interacting with the criminal justice system as witness, suspect, critic, and citizen. (Bioethics Forum)