Public Health and Private Pain: A night of medical history and drama
Disabled access only available in the Basement Gallery.
Enter the Museum for a unique evening of performance and drama. Drawing from a rich variety of medical plays and historical material, the event will illuminate, provoke, and dramatize developments which have shaped ideas of the body from the 18th century to the present day. Join academics from across the University of Oxford, professional actors from Pegasus Theatre and staff of the Museum of the History of Science as they show how these developments have been mapped not just by medical writing but by theatre, which has a long history of engaging with science and medicine.

Scenes and readings to include:
Shelagh Stephenson, An Experiment with an Air-pump (1998)
George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906)
Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts (1881)
A selection from the WWI poetry collection at Oxford by Sassoon and Owen
An historical anti-vaccination song
Joe Penhall, Blue/Orange (2000)
Date: 5 May 2016, 19:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2016)
Venue: History of Science Museum, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Venue Details: Whole Museum
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: History of Science Museum
Organiser contact email address: robyn.haggard@mhs.ox.ac.uk
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Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-health-and-private-pain-a-night-of-medical-history-and-drama-tickets-24590993323
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Robyn Haggard