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What can we learn from the Doctors of Star Trek?
Presentation & Screening of Star Trek II, Wrath of Khan (1982)
Organised by Skeptics Cinema & Sci Screen
27 April 2017 at 19.15pm - 21.15pm
Banshee Labyrinth, 29-35 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG,
Presentation before the movie
Lesley Henderson of Brunel University London & Simon Carter of The Open University: What can we learn from the Doctors of Star Trek?
Register here https://www.meetup.com/EdinburghSkeptics/events/238394559/
We think that doctors should be particularly interested in Star Trek, not least because doctors have always featured prominently in every reincarnation of the franchise.
Indeed, the President of the American Medical Association, Dr Robert Wah, named Star Trek's iconic physician Leonard "Bones" McCoy as his favourite fictional character because he represents the perfect combination of scientific knowledge and human compassion. But what else can we learn from Star Trek? In a recent paper we published in BMJ Medical Humanities, we suggested that doctors in space embody societal anxieties about the future of medicine, health technologies, and healthcare.
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/10/21/what-can-we-learn-from-the-doctors-of-star-trek/
BMJ Medical Humanities Paper - "Doctors in Space (Ships)"
http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2016/09/30/medhum-2016-010902
-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.
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