Medicine Unboxed

Medicine Unboxed Understanding medicine through the arts and humanities. Medicine Unboxed MATTER, 2023. A purely scientific answer will never prove sufficient here.

Good medicine is more than a set of technical decisions and interventions involving drugs, operations or tests. It demands more of the practitioner - professionalism, empathetic care, moral consideration, insight, an understanding of human suffering and necessarily, wisdom. These attributes are not always prioritised in selecting for or training healthcare professionals, and there is little time or attention given to their authentic development within busy working environments. Further, there is a widening hiatus of trust, understanding and expectation between medicine and society around what constitutes good medicine. This pressingly requires real engagement around medicine’s role and society’s values. The term ‘Medical humanities’ describes disciplines, which engage the relationship between Medicine and the Arts. Humanities such as fine art, literature, philosophy, ethics and contextual studies, inform medicine through unique insights into the human condition and the individual experience of Illness and disease, from both patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives. This is important, as it equips the medical practitioner with reflective, empathetic and analytical skills essential for providing good care.

Medicine Unboxed: MATTER - view the archive on Vimeo. A year ago, at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER, we wondered about the sha...
09/04/2024

Medicine Unboxed: MATTER - view the archive on Vimeo.

A year ago, at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER, we wondered about the shared and changing substance of our planet; the brevity and connectedness of human and other life; what separates death from life; the privileged and the destitute; bodies, stone, ash and ghosts; about matter's arrival at beauty, consciousness, words and story. We tussled with what finally matters, here in what T. S. Eliot called ‘our twittering world.’

https://mailchi.mp/7ac6d15e058a/medicine-unboxed-matter-view-archive

"In the owl-light, / when loneliness shines / through your bones like a bare bulb." ~ Liz Berry at Medicine Unboxed: MAT...
01/04/2023

"In the owl-light, / when loneliness shines / through your bones like a bare bulb." ~ Liz Berry at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London.

Sam Guglani has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. Medicine Unboxed examines the interface between me...
30/03/2023

Sam Guglani has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. Medicine Unboxed examines the interface between medicine, philosophy, and the through a series of speakers and performances. Here, he joins The Lancet Voice podcast to discuss philosophy, "good medicine", and Medicine Unboxed:MATTER in London.

The Lancet Voice is a fortnightly podcast from the Lancet family of journals. Lancet editors and their guests unravel the stories behind the best global policy and of the day―and what it means for people around the world. Each episode seeks to inform, challenge, and delight listeners with stories at the crossroads of health, science, policy and current global affairs.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4b2Py1Ebm72hfUCRnh081R?si=twzckDaLR8i8P5X4p1dzeg&dd=1

Listen to this episode from The Lancet Voice on Spotify. Dr. Sam Guglani, an oncologist from Cheltenham, UK, has been running Medicine Unboxed for ten sold-out years. His show examines the interface between medicine, philosophy, and the humanities through a series of speakers and performances. Here,...

"What makes the difference between being conscious at all and being a chunk of living meat, or lifeless silicon, without...
30/03/2023

"What makes the difference between being conscious at all and being a chunk of living meat, or lifeless silicon, without any inner universe?" ~ Anil Seth at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London.

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