Medicine Unboxed

Medicine Unboxed

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Medicine Unboxed aims to inspire debate and medicine and to inform its culture. Medicine Unboxed is for the public, for health professionals and for all of us who will be patients one day. Despite scientific advances, medicine faces moral, political and social challenges that require the pursuit of meaning as much as knowledge. The arts and other disciplines can help to illuminate the central questions and to foster awe, empathy and humility. Our annual events - Unboxed (2009), Stories (2010), Values (2011), Belief (2012), Voice (2013), Frontiers (2014), Mortality (2015), Wonder (2016), Maps (...

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Apr 8, 2024

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MORTALITY - Rhidian Brook And Michael Symmons Roberts - FAITH 28.11.2015

Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the sounds of loss and grief and recovery and how death is felt in war, in hospital, in our homes and fields....

MORTALITY - Allan Kellehear - ENDS 28.11.2015

Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the sounds of loss and grief and recovery and how death is felt in war, in hospital, in our homes and fields....

MORTALITY - Jane Draycott Rebecca Goss And Jo Shapcott - ELEGY 28.11.2015

Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the sounds of loss and grief and recovery and how death is felt in war, in hospital, in our homes and fields....

MORTALITY - Peter Stanford And Jay Carver - EARTH 28.11.2015

Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the sounds of loss and grief and recovery and how death is felt in war, in hospital, in our homes and fields....

MORTALITY - Henry Marsh - BLOOD 28.11.2015

Henry Marsh is am English neurosurgeon, and a pioneer of neurosurgical advances in Ukraine. His widely acclaimed memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery was published in 2014.

MORTALITY - Tom De Freston And Raymond Tallis - ART 28.11.2015

Medicine Unboxed 2015 MORTALITY looked at life and death and the lines that separate them. We will marvel at how molecules are arranged into life and examine other beginnings and endings, of the universe and how all nature folds and unfolds in time. We will wonder about time. We will hear the sounds of loss and grief and recovery and how death is felt in war, in hospital, in our homes and fields....

MORTALITY - Sue Black - BODY 28.11.2015

Sue Margaret Black is a Scottish forensic anthropologist, anatomist and academic. She is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and current President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

WONDER - Dave Goulson - PLANET 28.11.2015

WONDER - Dave Goulson - PLANET by Medicine Unboxed

VOICE - Bobby Baker's Ballistic Buns - PERFORMED VOICE 15.08.2015

Performed Voice: Ballistic Buns is a brief fragment of Bobby Baker's research into her own family history focusing on mental illness, family survival techniques and the impact of war, unhappiness and frustrated ambition on subsequent generations. This 10-minute piece involved tales of the Vicar of Byker, the Ballistic Engineer, the Life Long Anorexic, the 16” German Howitzer named affectionately '...

VOICE - Bobby Baker talks to Sam Guglani - PERFORMED VOICE 15.08.2015

Performed Voice : Bobby Baker is a woman, and an artist. She lives in London. In a career spanning nearly four decades she has, amongst other things, made a life-sized edible version of her family and driven around the streets of London strapped to the back of a truck yelling at passers by through a megaphone to ‘Pull Yourselves Together.’ Baker’s touring exhibition Diary Drawings: Mental Illness...

VOICE - Bobby Baker performs Ballistic Buns 15.08.2015

Performed Voice: Ballistic Buns is a brief fragment of Bobby Baker's research into her own family history focusing on mental illness, family survival techniques and the impact of war, unhappiness and frustrated ambition on subsequent generations. This 10-minute piece involved tales of the Vicar of Byker, the Ballistic Engineer, the Life Long Anorexic, the 16” German Howitzer named affectionately '...

FRONTIERS - Sasha - CROSSING 14.08.2015

FRONTIERS - Sasha - CROSSING by Medicine Unboxed

FRONTIERS - Phillip Hoare - SEA 14.08.2015

Philip Hoare (born 1958, Southampton) is the author of six works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), and England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005). Leviathan or, The Whale (2008),...

FROINTIERS - Tiffany Atkinson - Last 29.04.2015

Tiffany Atkinson reads Last.

FRONTIERS - Tiffany Atkinson - Dolorimeter 29.04.2015

Tiffany Atkinson reads Dolorimeter.

FRONTIERS - Tiffany Atkinson - A line from the doctor (annotated) 29.04.2015

Tiffany Atkinson reads A Line From The Doctor (annotated).

FRONTIERS -Tiffany Atkinson - The Smokers Outside Bronglais Hospital 29.04.2015

Tiffany Atkinson reads The Smokers Outside Bronglais Hospital.

FRONTIERS - Melanie Pappenheim - CHORUS 28.11.2014

Agnes and Melanie. Performance from the balcony

FRONTIERS - Bob Heath - The burning house and the falling tree 28.11.2014

The burning house and the falling tree. From death and mortality.

FRONTIERS - Giles Perring - CHORUS 28.11.2014

Hitting the nail on the head

FRONTIERS - Giles Perring - CHORUS 28.11.2014

Us -"what is the right choice?"

FRONTIERS - Giles Perring - CHORUS 28.11.2014

Just be.

FRONTIERS - Anusha Subramanyam - CHORUS 28.11.2014

FRONTIERS - Anusha Subramanyam - CHORUS by Medicine Unboxed

FRONTIERS - Melanie Pappenheim - CHORUS 28.11.2014

In G sharp

FRONTIERS - Iona Heath - END 28.11.2014

Iona Heath worked as an inner city general practitioner at the Caversham Group Practice in Kentish Town in London from 1975 until 2010. She was a nationally elected member of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1989 to 2009 and chaired the College’s Committee on Medical Ethics from 1998 to 2004 and the International Committee from 2006 to 2009. She has been a member of the Wo...

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