Health on Screen: The Public and the Global
Monday, 8 July 2024, 11am - 4pm
Seminar Room 8, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Once registration closes please email medhum@torch.ox.ac.uk to be placed on a waiting list.
Organizers: Erica Charters, Jack Doyle, Sally Frampton, Alberto Giubilini
Please find the Programme here.
Social media – primarily TikTok, Facebook, X/Twitter, and Instagram – are now considered responsible for the majority of public health messaging, whether Covid-19 information and misinformation or advice on how to recognize the symptoms of cancer or ADHD. Yet these modern forms of health communication draw on practices found in film and television, in which government information, medical expertise, and lay opinions have long competed with one another.
This interdisciplinary workshop will examine the history, ethics, and present-day practices of public health on screen, with particular attention to global health themes and how these shape public health messaging. It will draw on the British Film Institute – University of Oxford Medical Humanities research collaboration ‘The Public’s Health’, making use of the BFI’s extensive archive of public health moving images. It will also incorporate discussion of present-day public health messaging, particularly the public engagement programme of the Africa Health Research Institute, and current research into the portrayal of Africa during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Lunch will be provided, please contact alexia.lewis@history.ox.ac.uk if you have any dietary requirements.
Image Credit: Infecting Minds Project
:
Image Credit: Defeat Tuberculosis, BFI Collection
Medical Humanities Research Hub
