Debating the best and worst of medicine
2 May 2008
A collaboration between Wellcome Collection and Spiked, the debate has opened online with proposals from two of the speakers and a chance for the public to respond.
This will culminate in two live debates to be held at Wellcome Collection.
The first debate - 'The Best of Medicine' - will take place on 26 June, where four speakers will put the case for the top-dog ideas in medical history. Will the winner be vaccination, family planning, the internet or a mystery people’s choice?
The second debate - 'The Worst of Medicine' - will take place on 17 July, where four more experts will denounce the worst-ever harebrained schemes in medicine and call for them to be chucked into the sin bin of history. Will the internet, health-obsessed living, poaching of foreign doctors or a mystery people’s choice end up at the bottom of the pile?
We will select one of our readers’ most interesting proposals from both the best and worst categories and add them as fourth surprise nominations at the events.
Visit the Wellcome Collection site for more on the events and to order tickets.
