Think Pieces

IME 2021 Conference ‘Maintaining trust in medicine in a “post truth” world’ VIDEO RECORDING

By Phil Greenwood · July 5, 2021

Professor A.C. Grayling – Information, Autonomy, Authority: the chasm and the bridge between patient and practitioner (also features conference opening by Rev Bryan Vernon)

Darren Thwaites, Editor in Chief, Manchester Evening News – Truth, Public Interest and the Media

Dr Ruth Bromley, Lead for Ethics & Law, University of Manchester – Systematic injustice – reducing liberty for people experiencing homelessness

Pecha Kucha Session featuring:

Bhawna Sharma (Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) – Domestic Abuse and Violence: Supporting Foundation Doctors to Support Victims

Olivia Marshall (Policy and Communications Associate, BPAS) – Risk messages relating to pregnancy: a media content analysis

Ana Wheelock (Research Fellow, Kingston University & Imperial College London) – Lack of confidence in vaccines: a case of well-placed mistrust?

Harry Hudson (MB ChB LLM Student, University of Bristol) – Thomas Kuhn, Paradigms and Psychopharmaceutical Efficacy: Who Cares What’s True?

Prof Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science and is the Founding Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine – Limits of legitimate debate on vaccination

Dr Joe Brierley, Consultant in Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Great Ormond Street Hospital – Intersection of facts and values in the best interests of very sick children