XClose

Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

Home
Menu

IAS Book Launch: Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

29 November 2019, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm

china film

by Vivienne Lo (UCL), Chris Berry (KCL) and Guo Liping (Peking)

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Institute of Advanced Studies

Location

IAS Common Ground
Ground floor, South Wing, UCL
London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

This is the first book to reflect on the power that the moving image has to represent medical and health discourse in China. The work here has grown out of a Wellcome Trust-sponsored collaboration (UCL, PKU, KCL). The research came to fruition as part of the interconnected curriculum through our teaching of Medical and Health Humanities to Chinese students at UCL. Many of the students contributed to the chapters. The authors represent a broad interdisciplinary mix. Their combined approaches are united by a passion for improving the cross-cultural understanding of the body, its identities and practices, and for improvement in healthcare.

Prof Judy Farquhar (University of Chicago) says, ‘The medical humanities seek to humanize medicine, reaching the hearts and minds of students and health care workers with stories and images from a variety of present and past worlds. This volume is the secret weapon of that noble project’.

All welcome. Please note that there may be photography and/or audio recording at some events and that admission is on a first come first served basis. Please follow this FAQ link for more information. All our events are free but you can support the IAS here.