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Colleagues may be interested in this free event. best wishes, Lesley 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, Institute of Environment, Health & Societies, Brunel University London & Simon Carter, Sociology, The Open University: What can we learn from the Doctors of Star Trek? Register https://www.meetup.com/EdinburghSkeptics/events/238394559/ https://www.facebook.com/events/272469999858870/ Doctors have always featured prominently in every reincarnation of the Star Trek 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://mh.bmj.com/content/42/4/277 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------