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Media Reporting of Medical Advances: Helpful or Misleading?

The media and medicine have different perspectives. This lecture will use examples of how the public may be misled and consider the implications of such misunderstanding.

Shakespeare's Fame

This final lecture will show how Shakespeare helped to immortalize the famous figures of ancient Greece and Rome, and how he in turn became famous after his death.

Air Pollution: Its Impact on Health and Possible Solutions

This lecture will consider the evidence for different forms of air pollution causing diseases, and outline some of the potential solutions.

The Birth of Modern Theatreland: Covent Garden and the Two Theatres Royal

London is home to two of the oldest working theatres in the world both founded by Charles II’s patents. Professor Thurley looks at the significance and impact of these great institutions on the development of London.

How Spontaneous Gestures Connect to Thinking

I will argue for the essential unity of speech and gesture in the transmission of thought, and suggest that we have underestimated the considerable communicative significance of these movements.

Personalised Medicine - Made For You

This lecture considers the challenges that the NHS and its suppliers face in employing personalised medicine.

Palace, Park and Square: St James's and the Birth of the West End

Based on new research into the origins of St. James’s, Simon Thurley looks into the ingredients that went into making a court quarter there and the way it formed a blueprint for the new West End of London.

Asthma and Chronic Airways Disease

Asthma, an intermittent disease, is the commonest lung disease in the UK. The second is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This lecture will consider trends and advances in these two diseases, and the chronic genetic lung disease cystic fibrosis.

Does a Good Bedside Manner Matter?

There is an apparent conflict between the increase in technology in medicine and the importance of a relationship between patient and doctor. This Valentine’s Day lecture considers the importance of that relationship.

Computer Bugs in Hospitals: A New Killer

The extent of the problem of software bugs in the medical arena, and elsewhere, suggest an increasing number of avoidable deaths and injuries in UK hospitals.

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