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People Powered Medicine (Symposium, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 7 May 2016)

posted on March 17, 2025

Event Summary: People Powered Medicine Symposium

Event Type: Public symposium investigating public participation in medicine and healthcare
Date & Time: Saturday, 7 May 2016, 09:00–17:30
Location: Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35–43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE
Organizing Body: Constructing Scientific Communities project
Key Speakers: Dr Ruth Richardson and Professor Christopher McKevitt (King's College London)
Primary Focus: Historical and contemporary perspectives on doctor–patient relationships, professional boundaries, and public contribution to medical matters from nineteenth century to present
Ticket Price: £20 standard; £15 concessions (students, job seekers, disability benefits); free companion place for disabled delegates
Inclusions: All refreshments, delegates' lunch, post-symposium reception, and private museum viewing with ‘Vaccination: Medicine and the masses' exhibition
Funding Support: Arts and Humanities Research Council
Registration: Open via Eventbrite; full programme and abstracts available online

Registration has now opened for People Powered Medicine: A one-day public symposium, investigating public participation in medicine and healthcare from the nineteenth century to the present.

The symposium, organised by the Constructing Scientific Communities project and held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, will bring together historical and contemporary perspectives to look at the relationship between the medical profession and the public. It will explore challenges to professional boundaries throughout the period, how the doctor-patient relationship has changed, and in what ways the public can contribute to matters of medicine, health and disease.

Keynote speakers include Dr Ruth Richardson and Professor Christopher McKevitt (both King’s College London).

This public event will be followed by a drinks reception at the College’s Hunterian Museum.

This event has been generously supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

When: 09:00 to 17:30, Saturday, 7 May 2016

Where: Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE

Tickets: £20/15 (Concessions: students, those in receipt of job seekers or disability benefits, free place for companion accompanying a disabled delegate.)

Ticket price includes all refreshments, delegates’ lunch and a post-symposium reception and private view of the museum and the exhibition ‘Vaccination: Medicine and the masses’.

Full programme and abstracts available here.

Register here using Eventbrite.

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