Healing the Divide between Medicine & the Humanities

Next week will see the return of the intercalated BA in Medical Humanities end-of-year celebration to its traditional place at ‘The Space’, PRSC, Jamaica St, Central Bristol.  This year’s theme is ‘Healing the Divide between Medicine & the Humanities’

The exhibition will be open from Wednesday 25th to Thursday 26th May, from 11 am to 4.30 pm. Everyone is welcome to drop in.  Tea and Coffee are available.

The exhibition also hosts a panel discussion and talk, which will be of particular interest to CEH members.  This year the panel discussion, supported by medicine360.co.uk will be around social prescribing: what is it, how does it work, and what might it be? Or put another way — how can nature be integrated within the NHS.

A large part of the answer to that is the social prescribing link worker — a relatively new position.  In medicine360-style, however, the discussion panel will involve a diverse set of perspectives on the issue — a GP, project leaders (The Human Nature Project, Blue Prescribing), an academic (Samantha Walton, author of Everybody Needs Beauty) a participant, and a social prescribing link worker for North Bristol. The panel will start at 4.30 pm on Wednesday 25th May. Free but ticketed.

Lucy Jones, image (C) Emma Brunton

For the talk the iBAMH is delighted to host @lucyjones, bestselling author of Losing Eden.  She will be speaking on ‘Why Our Minds Need The Wild’ at 6pm on Wednesday 25th.  This is also free but ticketed. PRSC is not that big, and the seats are going quite quickly.

The panel discussion will have a Bristol and surrounding area focus, while Lucy’s talk will be more wide-ranging; discussion and talk should complement one another, and there will be a Q&A discussion after both.

More info on twitter @uobrisibamh

All welcome!

Each year the University of Bristol offers its own and other universites’ medical students the opportunity to pause their main studies and gain an intercalated BA in Medical Humanities.  Joining English and Philosophy students, these medical students are able to to explore some of the wider issues around healthcare.

Booking for the panel

Booking for Lucy Jones