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SUMMARY:DES across the Atlantic: What Medicine Knew and What Women Lived
DESCRIPTION:DES across the Atlantic: What Medicine Knew and What Women Lived.\n\n\n\n\n\nInspired by A Life Lived Chronically and One Drug\, Two Lives including a panel discussion with DES daughters and experts \n\n\n\nUpdated! \n\n\n\nAbout the Event\n\n\n\nJoin British author\, DES daughter and documentary participant Claire Silverstone-Bright for a distinctive evening of memoir\, medicine and transatlantic conversation in the Hall of Immortals at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science. \n\n\n\nThe event will mark the Chicago launch of Claire’s memoir\, A Life Lived Chronically: Memoir of a DES Daughter\, and will feature exclusive advance clips from Over the Bloody Moon’s forthcoming documentary\, One Drug\, Two Lives. \n\n\n\nClaire is one of the documentary’s two principal participants. This special Chicago event takes place just two weeks before the film’s world premiere on December 1\, 2026\, offering guests an early glimpse of the documentary and the stories at its heart. \n\n\n\nOne Drug. A Shared History. Different Landscapes.\n\n\n\nDiethylstilbestrol\, commonly known as DES\, was prescribed to pregnant women in the United States\, the United Kingdom and countries around the world. \n\n\n\nThe drug crossed borders. Its consequences crossed generations. \n\n\n\nYet the landscapes that developed around DES were very different. \n\n\n\nIn the United States\, DES became the subject of significant scientific research\, legal action\, public-health awareness and organised advocacy. In Britain\, many DES-exposed people remained unidentified\, dispersed and without consistent clinical recognition\, specialist knowledge or clearly defined care. \n\n\n\nDES Across the Atlantic brings these histories together. \n\n\n\nThe evening will explore what the American and British DES experiences can learn from one another\, how medical knowledge is preserved or lost\, and what it means to live with the consequences of a medical decision made before birth. \n\n\n\nVoices from Across the DES Ecosystem\n\n\n\nAlongside Claire’s memoir and documentary work\, the evening is being developed to include a panel-style series of short talks and conversations from people working across the DES ecosystem. \n\n\n\nThis may include DES daughters and sons\, campaigners\, patient advocates\, researchers\, clinicians\, historians and others who have helped preserve\, challenge and expand understanding of DES over many decades. \n\n\n\nThe aim is not to present a single version of the DES story\, but to bring together different perspectives from across advocacy\, lived experience\, medicine\, research and public awareness. \n\n\n\nTogether\, these voices will consider: \n\n\n\n\nwhat has changed for DES-exposed people;\n\n\n\nwhat remains unresolved;\n\n\n\nwhat different generations and national communities can learn from one another;\n\n\n\nhow DES knowledge can be preserved as the exposed population ages;\n\n\n\nand what the next phase of awareness\, research and advocacy might look like.\n\n\n\n\nAdditional speakers and contributors will be announced as they are confirmed. \n\n\n\nMemoir\, Film and Lived Experience\n\n\n\nAt the centre of the evening is A Life Lived Chronically\, Claire’s account of a lifetime shaped by prenatal DES exposure. \n\n\n\nThe memoir moves beyond a list of diagnoses to examine the cumulative experience of chronic illness\, reproductive harm\, fragmented healthcare\, missing medical records and the repeated need to explain connections that medicine has often considered separately. \n\n\n\nThrough readings\, documentary clips\, short talks and live conversation\, the evening will connect personal testimony with the wider history and continuing legacy of DES. \n\n\n\nIn the Hall of Immortals\n\n\n\nThe setting gives the evening particular resonance. \n\n\n\nSurrounded by figures commemorated for their contributions to medicine and scientific discovery\, we will consider another essential form of medical history: the knowledge carried by patients whose bodies continue to record the consequences of decisions made decades ago. \n\n\n\nIn a hall dedicated to those who shaped medical history\, we gather to hear from those whose lives were shaped by it. \n\n\n\nWhat to Expect\n\n\n\nThe evening will include: \n\n\n\n\nexclusive pre-premiere clips from One Drug\, Two Lives;\n\n\n\nreadings from A Life Lived Chronically;\n\n\n\na panel-style series of short talks and conversations from across the DES community;\n\n\n\ntransatlantic discussion about the American and British DES landscapes;\n\n\n\naudience questions and discussion;\n\n\n\nand an opportunity to meet contributors and purchase a signed copy of the book.\n\n\n\n\nThis event is for DES daughters\, sons and families\, healthcare professionals\, researchers\, advocates\, students\, memoir readers and anyone interested in medical history\, patient testimony and the long-term consequences of healthcare decisions. \n\n\n\nThis is not simply a book launch\, nor a conventional film event. \n\n\n\nIt is a gathering of voices around one shared medical history and the lives that continue to carry it. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister on Eventbrite
URL:https://imss.org/program/des-across-the-atlantic-what-medicine-knew-and-what-women-lived/
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