When we are ill we want a name for our illness. Yet every case is different, and as placebos indicate, how we think also matters. Could we be healthier if we were less attached to naming illness? Can we improve our health by improving our mind, or is this an old lie peddled by quacks?
President of the World Psychiatric Association Dinesh Bhugra, radical psychopharmacologist David Healy and philosopher and author of Illness Havi Carel put medicine on trial.
Havi Cavel will be speaking at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, this May. Bringing together world-leading scientists, musicians, philosophers and politicians including Roger Penrose, Natalie Bennett, Paul Krugman, Fiona Shaw, Mike Skinner, Polly Toynbee, Lianne La Havas, Tariq Ali, Martin Creed, and John Searle for debates, talks and wild parties, this year’s programme examines the elements of reality that might soon turn out to be illusions.
Visit the HowTheLightGetsIn event listing to buy tickets.
Oxford Phenomenology Network
Contact name: Christine Jakobson
Contact email: christine.jakobson@artandideas.org
Website: HowTheLightGetsIn
Audience: Open to all
