Thackray Insights: You Choose

Name: Thackray Insights: You Choose
Start: 2024-11-02T11:30:00+01:00
Location: Beckett Street, LS9 7LN Leeds, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 11:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Beckett Street, LS9 7LN Leeds, United Kingdom | Leeds, EN

Taking place across our Autumn/Winter season, Thackray Insights invites you to delve deep into eye opening topics and explore the unheard stories of medicine.
If we could control our own medical tests and design our own prescriptions, would we be healthier and happier? Personalised medicine has been around for centuries. In the past, apothecaries would mix pills to order, and those who could afford it would have access to a personal physician.
From bionic eyes to artificial tongues to 3D printed pills, our latest exhibition explores the eye-catching tech from the past, present and future that empower the way we take care of ourselves. Join Dave Lynch (Creative Director, lmmersive Networks Collective) as he facilitates a discussion with the curatorial team around the mind boggling medical inventions they came across and what they mean for the future of your healthcare.
This event is an Insights Panel Debate – grab a coffee and join the discussion as we quiz a group of experts

About the Speakers:
Prof James Stark is Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Leeds. His research has been featured in New Scientist, BMJ and The Lancet.
Lynn Wray is a researcher and creative practitioner, and currently the Living Bodies Objects project Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.
Dr Jack Gann is Thackray’s curator, where he applies his PhD research examining the idea of museums as social and playful spaces.
Interested in attending multiple events in the season? Add three or more Insights events into your basket for a 20% discount on your overall purchase at checkout.
We also offer a select number of free Insights tickets for students studying A-Level or above – email [email protected] to find out more.