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YorNight - European Researchers Night

Friday 26 September 2014, 5.00PM to 10.00pm

Speaker(s): Various

John Snow's York and his contribution to public health, Professor Karl Atkin and Dr Steven Oliver

John Snow's work on cholera is world famous as it transformed public health by emphasising the importance of non-contaminated water supplies in preventing the spread of infectious disease.  This event will explore John Snow’s early life and connect it to ideas about life and death in early nineteenth-century England. For more information visit http://yornight.com/activities/health/john-snows-york/.  (This event will start at 6pm).

Order, chaos and chronic illness, Richard Morley

The project “Order, Chaos and Chronic Illness” explores how we talk, think and write about long lasting health conditions or disease through the medium of poetry. It considers how reading and/or writing poetry impacts on a person’s wellbeing, exploring the possibility suggested by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre in 2012 that poetry can open a different way of articulating and communicating the lived experience of chronic illness (and research into chronic illness), “emphasising in its singular way discontinuity, surprise, and the uneasy relationship between words and the life of the body”.

You will be able to learn more about the project, read some of the work that was written in workshops, talk to people involved in the project and pick up a copy of the anthology that we are producing. Come and explore the exhibition, and find out more about this fusion of art and science. For more information visit http://yornight.com/activities/health/order-chaos-and-chronic-illness/.

Walking away the pain in people with leg artery disease, Dr Garry Tew

Some people, as they get older, develop intermittent claudication, which is a cramp-like leg pain that occurs during walking and relieved only by rest. Garry will be presenting one of his recent research studies about a structured education programme which aims to help people with peripheral arterial disease have a better understanding of their condition, and to actively self-manage their condition through undertaking regular walking exercise.  Come along to find out more about this incredible research! For more information visit http://yornight.com/activities/health/walking-away-the-pain/.

 

Location: Kings's Manor and York Medical Society

Admission: Free