In ‘Culture Club’, Melanie Oliveiro speaks with American author J.C. Hallman about his creative non-fiction book "Say Anarcha". It centres on the life and controversial medical career of Dr. J. Marion Sims - once hailed as the “father of modern gynaecology”, as well as herbalist and nurse Anarcha one of the enslaved women he performed unethical surgical experiments on – without anaesthesia. Hallman is in Singapore as a visiting writer for the Asia Creative Writing Programme (ACWP), a collaboration between NTU’s School of Humanities and the National Arts Council of Singapore.

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