Medicine Unboxed

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

15/05/2023

Thank you to our speakers, audience, & team for bringing MATTER to life on Saturday.

We look forward to seeing you again at Medicine Unboxed, but until then … here’s the spring we opened with ~
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gmhjAsvL6c7se2PBh7dHw?si=s6Cl6QINTTa2P0BZb59jYA

26/04/2023

Our programme and speakers for Medicine Unboxed: MATTER, 13 May 2023, Kings Place, London. Tickets at Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-unboxed-matter-tickets-511287904887

07/04/2023

“For months or years, bodies are pressed into bodies, lives dependent on other lives. You become cargo, a piece of meat, a being that loses humanity.” ~ at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-unboxed-matter-tickets-511287904887

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.

01/04/2023

"I’ve always said there are no mysteries, only things we don’t know; but lately, I’ve thought not even knowledge takes all strangeness from the world."~ Sarah Perry at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-unboxed-matter-tickets-511287904887

01/04/2023

"That whenever you are standing on chalk, you are standing where the sea used to be. " ~ Helen Gordon at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-unboxed-matter-tickets-511287904887

31/03/2023

"The plastic bonding the metals together is polyethylene. It is literally solid petrol and will burn like it. This is what was starting to happen at Grenfell Tower." ~ Pete Apps at Medicine Unboxed: MATTER | 13 May 2023 | Kings Place, London. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-unboxed-matter-tickets-511287904887

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,...

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.