Hosted by Great Western Hospitals and Medicine 360

Medical Humanities seeks to explore how medicine and the arts can enrich each other. The theme of our conference is 'Bodies', so we will be considering the body in its various forms. We have some amazing speakers lined up who will be exploring some of the topics below: 

• The power of storytelling 
• Why medics need to take pleasure more seriously 
• Honour-based killing and forced marriage 
• Graphic medicine 
• Grief 
• The transition from doctor to patient 
• The making of the Channel 4 'My Dead Body' documentary 
• Using the unique medium of prosthetics to create highly stylised wearable art pieces

Speakers include:

• Rachel Clarke, NHS palliative care doctor (Your Life In My Hands, Dear Life, Breathtaking)
• Chris Luke, consultant in emergency care (A Life in Trauma)
• Kat Lyons, Bristol City Poet
• Henry Marsh, retired neurosurgeon (Do No Harm, Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery, And Finally: Matters of Life and Death)#
• Sabeena Pirooz of The Sky Project
• Lesel Dawson and Lucy Selman of Good Grief: A Festival
• Mark Taubert, consultant in palliative care and founder of TalkCPR
• Ian Williams, GP, comic artist, and founder of graphicmedicine.org (The Bad Doctor, The Lady Doctor)
• and the team behind the remarkable Channel 4 documentary My Dead Body

The conference is aimed at the public, health professionals and all of us who have been, or will be, patients.

Register for your place (prices range £13.50-£60)