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Medicine Unboxed Medicine Unboxed
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- Gesellschaft und Kultur
Medicine Unboxed aims to inspire debate and medicine and to inform its culture.
Medicine Unboxed is for the public, for health professionals and for all of us who will be patients one day. Despite scientific advances, medicine faces moral, political and social challenges that require the pursuit of meaning as much as knowledge. The arts and other disciplines can help to illuminate the central questions and to foster awe, empathy and humility.
Our annual events - Unboxed (2009), Stories (2010), Values (2011), Belief (2012), Voice (2013), Frontiers (2014), Mortality (2015), Wonder (2016), Maps (2017), Love (2018) and MATTER (2023) - each have drawn audiences of over three hundred people. Our Soundcloud and Vimeo archives have been seen and heard by tens of thousands of people.
Our speakers are writers, politicians, philosophers, scientists, musicians and performers. The events are theatrical, moving and challenging and are performances in themselves.
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MATTER - Arthur Jeffes And Sarah Gabriel - SONG
Described by Le Monde as ‘As fine an actor as she is a singer’ (Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady, Theatre du Chatelet), Sarah Gabriel is a singer, writer, and actor with a passion for creating work with artists of all disciplines.
Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned PCO music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997. -
MATTER - Helen Gordon - TIME
Helen Gordon's books include Notes from Deep Time (Profile), Landfall (Penguin) and, with Travis Elborough, Being a Writer (Frances Lincoln). She has written about nature, science, clothes and books for various newspapers and magazines including the Economist's 1843 magazine, the Guardian and Wired UK, and is a former Granta magazine editor.
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MATTER - TABLA - Gurdain Rayatt
Born and raised in UK, Gurdain Rayatt is one of the leading tabla players and teachers in UK and Europe performing internationally with renowned Indian Classical musicians as well as world/crossover and fusion projects spanning several genres.
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MATTER - Anil Seth - WORLD
"What makes the difference between being conscious at all and being a chunk of living meat, or lifeless silicon, without any inner universe?"
Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty years. -
MATTER - Arthur Jeffes - PIANO
Arthur Jeffes founded Penguin Cafe in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes’ legacy of world renowned PCO music, ten years after his untimely death in 1997.
Arthur, a talented composer in his own right, quickly began to create new and unique genre-defying music, with the spellbinding philosophy of the Penguin Cafe always in his mind. -
MATTER - Chamakur Ghag - PARTICLE
Chamkaur Ghag is an astroparticle physicist working in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL. Chamkaur received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 following his work on novel technologies to detect dark matter. He held post-doctoral positions at the University of Edinburgh and University of California Los Angeles, continuing his dark matter research and contributing to the world-leading experiments, before moving back to the UK in 2012 to initiate experimental dark matter research at UCL.