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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 (2017), Love (2018) and MATTER (2023) - each have drawn audiences of over three hundred people. Our Soundcloud and Vimeo archives have been seen and heard by tens of thousands of people. Our speakers are writers, politicians, philosophers, scientists, musicians and performers. The events are theatrical, moving and challenging and are performances in themselves.
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Episodes

WONDER - Lynsey Hanley And Helen Pearson - DIVISION

Lynsey Hanley is the author of 'Estate: An intimate History' and 'Respectable: the experience of class'. She is a regular contributor to the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement. Helen Pearson is a science journalist and editor for the international science journal Nature. She has been writing for Nature since 2001 and her stories have won accolades including the 2010 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award and two best feature awards from the Association of British Science Writers. Base...

Nov 28, 201640 min

WONDER - Phil Hammond - EVERYTHING

PhiL Hammond is a physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his humorous commentary on the National Health Service.

Nov 28, 201640 min

WONDER - Ealish Swift - FACE

Medicine Unboxed 2016: WONDER explored how we wonder, what we wonder about, and what wonder compels us to in both an personal and planetary sense of duty.

Nov 28, 201616 min

WONDER - Robert Beckford - FAITH

Robert Beckford is a British academic theologian and a professor in theology at Canterbury Christ Church University, whose documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4 have caused debate among the Christian and British religious community.

Nov 28, 201623 min

WONDER - Max Porter - GRIEF

Max Porter is a senior editor at Granta Books and Portobello Books. He previously managed an independent bookshop and won the Young Bookseller of the Year award. He lives in South London with his wife and children. he is the author of the novella 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers'.

Nov 28, 201637 min

WONDER - Gavin Francis - HUMAN

Gavin Francis qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1999, then spent ten years travelling, visiting all seven continents. He is the author of three books: True North, Travels in Arctic Europe (2008, 2010), Empire Antarctica, Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins (2012) which was Scottish Book of the Year 2013 and shortlisted for the Costa, Ondaatje, Banff, & Saltire Prizes, & Adventures in Human Being (2015), which won Saltire Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2015. He lives and practises med...

Nov 28, 201631 min

WONDER - David Nicholl - INJUSTICE

David Nicholl is a neurologist, human rights activist, fundraiser for Amnesty International, and online columnist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. In March 2006 he initiated a letter in the medical journal The Lancet, signed by more than 250 medical experts urging the United States to stop force-feeding at the Guantanamo Bay and close down the prison camp.

Nov 28, 201626 min

WONDER - Jon Copley And Caspar Henderson - LIFE

Jon Copley is Associate Professor of Marine Ecology at the University of Southampton, and the first British person to dive to a depth of five kilometres in the ocean. As a marine biologist, his research explores environments such as volcanic vents on the ocean floor, where his team and colleagues have discovered several new species of deep-sea creatures during recent expeditions. His work also involves teaching and writing, and he is co-founder of a company that trains scientists in how to share...

Nov 28, 201643 min

WONDER - Michel Faber - LOVE

Michel Faber has written eight books, including the highly acclaimed The Book of Strange New Things, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Fahrenheit Twins and the Whitbread-shortlisted novel Under the Skin. The Apple, based on characters in The Crimson Petal and the White, was published in 2006. He has also written two novellas, The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps and The Courage Consort, and has won several short-story awards, including the Neil Gunn, Ian St James and Macallan. Born in Holland, b...

Nov 28, 201636 min

WONDER - Roger Penrose - NUMBERS

Sir Roger Penrose, Ph.D., OM, FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. He is renowned for his work in mathematical physics, in particular his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He is also a recreational mathematician and philosopher.

Nov 28, 201634 min

WONDER - Vahni Capildeo - OTHER

Vahni Capildeo has published four poetry collections including Undraining Sea (2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012) – longlisted for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature – Utter (2013) and Measures of Expatriation (2016).

Nov 28, 201623 min

WONDER - Gaia Vince - PLANET

Gaia Vince is a freelance British environmental journalist, broadcaster and non-fiction author who writes for The Guardian and BBC Online. She was previously news editor of Nature and online editor of New Scientist. Her book 'Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made' won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, making her the first woman to win the prize outright.

Nov 28, 201638 min

WONDER - James Morland - POET

Medicine Unboxed 2016: WONDER explored how we wonder, what we wonder about, and what wonder compels us to in both an personal and planetary sense of duty.

Nov 28, 201612 min

WONDER - David King - PSYCHAEDELIC

Medicine Unboxed 2016: WONDER explored how we wonder, what we wonder about, and what wonder compels us to in both an personal and planetary sense of duty.

Nov 28, 201612 min

WONDER - Anil Seth And Paul Fletcher - SELF

Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He is Editor and Co-Author of 30 Second Brain (Ivy Press, 2014), Consultant for Eye Benders (Ivy Press, 2013; winner of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize 2014) and contributes regularly to a variety of media including the New Scientist, The Guardian, and the BBC. Anil writes the popular blog NeuroBanter. Paul Fletcher is Bernard...

Nov 28, 201649 min

WONDER - James Rhodes - SOUND

In March 2010, James Rhodes became the first core classical pianist to be signed to the world’s largest rock label Warner Bros Records. His 1st album with Warner Bros, “Bullets & Lullabies” became his 3rd No1 iTunes album. That summer he was also the first solo classical pianist to play the Latitude Festival sharing stages with international stars such as Florence + the Machine and The National.

Nov 28, 201644 min

WONDER - Jon Webster - WUNDERKAMMER

Medicine Unboxed 2016: WONDER explored how we wonder, what we wonder about, and what wonder compels us to in both an personal and planetary sense of duty.

Nov 28, 201610 min

MORTALITY - Sue Black - BODY

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.

Nov 28, 201532 min

MORTALITY - Tom De Freston And Raymond Tallis - ART

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201538 min

MORTALITY - Henry Marsh - BLOOD

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.

Nov 28, 201541 min

MORTALITY - Peter Stanford And Jay Carver - EARTH

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201554 min

MORTALITY - Jane Draycott Rebecca Goss And Jo Shapcott - ELEGY

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201549 min

MORTALITY - Allan Kellehear - ENDS

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201544 min

MORTALITY - Rhidian Brook And Michael Symmons Roberts - FAITH

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201545 min

MORTALITY - Marion Coutts - ICEBERG

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201543 min

MORTALITY - Nick Lane - LIFE

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201544 min

MORTALITY - Rob George, Iona Heath Richard, Horton And Allan Kellehear - MEDICINE

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201559 min

MORTALITY - Julian Baggini - MORAL

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201534 min

MORTALITY - Katie Sidle And Peter Thomas - NERVE

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. We will see medicine’s hand raised against death and suffering and explore its duties to the living ...

Nov 28, 201534 min
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