Really since my earliest experience with medical training. I’ve been obsessed with monsters for many years. Wardlaw: The story took its own form as I wrote it, but at the same time I knew those connections were there. Had you mapped out all of the connections before you sat down to write, or were you surprised by where the story took you? Her research and clinical interests include medical ethics, disability, and the care of children with medical complexity.ĬNF: One of the wonderful things about this story is how much ground it covers-from Renaissance notions of monstrosity to the fate of a century-old embryology collection housed in a medical school to your experiences caring for a dying baby in a pediatric intermediate care unit. Her writing has appeared in US Catholic, The American Journal of Bioethics, and Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Margaret Wardlaw (MD, PhD) is a pediatrician.
… She is no monster, so why should she spend her final hours alone, like a pathological specimen, walled off from comfort?” And yet, Wardlaw reflects, “fter all that progress, we still refuse to treat her like a real baby. Born anencephalic-a condition “incompatible with extrauterine life,” Wardlaw notes-the baby has survived until now at the center of a miraculous tangle of wires and tubes. Wardlaw’s essay, “Monsters,” tells the story of a night the author spent in a NICU, caring for an eleven-month-old patient she calls Luz.
Margaret Wardlaw is the winner of the $10,000 prize for best essay in the Dangerous Creations issue, made possible with generous support from the Frankenstein Bicentennial Project. CNF interviews Margaret Wardlaw, winner of the Dangerous Creations essay contest
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