Wednesday 29th April
Performing Medicine: The Expressive Body
Venue: Rehersal Room 1, Arts Building
Time: 12.20pm
This workshop will provide practical examples of the application of arts work in medical training - demonstrating how theatre and movement techniques may help doctors, health professional and students broaden their understanding of the human body and expand the potential for a more inspiring, less anxious dialogue between doctor/health professional and patient.
Led by Suzy Willson - Director of Performing Medicine and The Clod Ensemble
Award-winning Performing Medicine is created by the Clod Ensemble in association with Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and the Department of Drama, Queen Mary University of London.
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Emotions, Medicine and the Law
Venue: Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building [map]
Time: 2.00pm
Over the last decade the relationship between psychology and the law has been the subject of fierce debate. Claims for psychological trauma, stress and psychiatric injury are regular features of British legal life yet the objective status of the claimed emotional experience remains uncertain. In this symposium four Queen Mary scholars will discuss the changing relationship of psychological medicine and the law and the ways that legal contests have shaped our understanding of our inner experiences. The symposium will focus on two themes:
- Thomas Dixon and Fay Bound Alberti, both from the Department of History, will examine the how the petitioner's feelings took on a new significance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century divorce proceedings.
- Michael Lobban, Department of Law, and Rhodri Hayward, Department of History, will discuss how notions of shock and stress evolved in nineteenth- and twentieth-century cases of industrial compensation.
This event
is in association with the newly launched Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions
The Economics of Smoking
Venue: Clinical Lecture Theatre, Francis Bancroft Building [map]
Time: 3.45pm
Have smoking bans in public places been effective?
The speaker will present an examination how smoking bans have increased exposure of non smokers to tobacco smoke in private places - with the biggest impact on small children. Instead she argues that higher taxes are a more efficient way to reduce such exposure.
Francesca Cornaglia is currently a Lecturer, at the Department of Economics, Queen Mary, University of London. Her main interests are in health economics, applied micro-econometrics, and labour economics. She holds a researcher position at CEP – Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
Medicine Under Pressure - The Law and Ethics of Medicine in Conflict Situations
Venue: Skeel Lecture Theatre, People,s Palace [map]
Time: 6.30pm
This event will bring together a panel of distinguished individuals to discuss medicine, human rights and international humanitarian law in situations of armed conflict, military occupation, intelligence gathering, and humanitarian relief.
Chaired by Professor Malcolm Evans, Professor of International Law, University of Bristol. Speakers and topics include:
- Mr Phil Shiner, Public Interest Lawyers - International human rights law and the prosecution of medical breaches of human rights in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
- Dr Phoebe Okowa, School of Law , Queen Mary, University of London - the role of medical humanitarian workers in reporting human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic ofCongo conflict
- Professor Richard Ashcroft, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London - Medicine under pressure - the ethics and professional regulation of doctors at work in combat, occupation and humanitarian relief settings.