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Medicine Unboxed

Medicine Unboxed
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Medicine Unboxed 2016: wonder event poster.
Date(s) November
Begins 2009
Frequency annual
Venue Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, UK
Location(s) Cheltenham, UK
Founder Dr. Samir Guglani
Most recent Medicine Unboxed 2015:Mortality
Next event Medicine Unboxed 2016:Wonder
Attendance 1600
Area international
Patrons Jo Shapcott, Raymond Tallis
Organised by Medicine Unboxed
People Samir Guglani (Curator), Peter Thomas (Creative Director)
Website
http://medicineunboxed.org
Medicine Unboxed is supported by the Wellcome Foundation, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and The Summerfield Trust.

Medicine Unboxed is a project arising from a view that good medicine demands more than scientific and technical expertise, and that it necessitates ethical judgment, an understanding of human experience, empathy, professionalism and wisdom.

Medicine Unboxed is a not-for-profit organisation that has held eight international conferences (Unboxing Medicine, 2009; Stories, Language and Medicine, 2010; Medicine and Values, 2011; Belief, 2012; Voice, 2013; Frontiers, 2014; Mortality, 2015) and Wonder 2016) in Cheltenham, UK. The aim of Medicine Unboxed is to explore "understanding medicine through the arts and humanities", and engage the public and front-line National Health Service staff with a view of medicine that is infused and elaborated by the humanities, with a view to promoting dialogue around the goals and values of medicine within society. Contributors to the conferences include artists, writers, the clergy, poets, philosophers, lawyers, linguists, musicians, theatre, ethicists, academics and doctors. Sadly this list of people hold events which the majority of the public are not informed about.they wish to influence how citizens are treated but have made no effort to include those outside the club -no communication which is inclusive and welcoming to all. These groups tend to set up projects to fill a hole in their lives - Medicine Unboxed is curated by Dr. Sam Guglani, Consultant Oncologist at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, that supports the organisation along with the Wellcome Foundation. The Creative Director is Peter Thomas. Its advisors are Dr. Sean Elyan and Dame Janet Trotter and its patrons are Jo Shapcott and Raymond Tallis.

Medicine Unboxed has been widely reported in the medical press including The Guardian,The Lancet, The British Medical Journal Online and Lapidus.

Following a move to a larger venue at the Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, the third event in the Medicine Unboxed series was Medicine and Values, which took place on 15 October 2011 and included contributions by Lionel Shriver, Jo Shapcott, Revd. John Bell, Raymond Tallis, John Carey, Paul Bailey, Michael Arditti, Havi Carel and Tom Isaacs (of The Cure Parkinson's Trust).


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