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Panacea ( GK) pan = all,  akos = remedy

Panacea ( GK) pan = all,  akos = remedy. (daughter of Aesculapius). Can Art cure Cancer?. What is health?. Wellbeing? Lack of illness? Personal/ Community/ Nation/ World. Testing. Does it cause harm? Is it effective? How effective? Dosing. Science. Objective evidence. Karl Popper.

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Panacea ( GK) pan = all,  akos = remedy

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  1. Panacea (GK) pan = all,  akos = remedy (daughter of Aesculapius)

  2. Can Art cure Cancer?

  3. What is health? • Wellbeing? • Lack of illness? • Personal/ Community/ Nation/ World

  4. Testing • Does it cause harm? • Is it effective? • How effective? • Dosing

  5. Science Objective evidence

  6. Karl Popper • Freud/ Marx/ Einstein • Principle of falsification • Verification • Distinction between Science – “falsifiable”, and “pseudo sciences” – “non-falsifiable” • Is Art a “pseudo-science”?

  7. Pharmaceutical Trials • Phase 1 – safety, pharmacokinetics • Phase 2 – In patients • Phase 3 – effectivity comparisons • Phase 4 – re-test, meta-analysis

  8. Trial Principles • Consent • Placebo • Control • Blind • Double blind • Crossover

  9. Health measurement • Scales • Calibrated scales – • Eg thermometer • Mortality – life expectancy • Morbidity – how ill?

  10. Methods • Questionaires • QALY’s • Consent • Controlled experiments • Groups

  11. Questionnaire

  12. QALY’s Quality Adjusted Life Years – A unifying way of quantifying Morbidity and Mortality

  13. Controlled experiments • Placebo • Time in front of exhibits • Social factors • Conversation • Alcohol • Music

  14. Groups • Cohort • Walk-up • Selected – well • Sick • Art-faithful • Art-sceptics • Scientists

  15. Results • Data • Assumptions - health • All data presented on charts and graphs as part of exhibition • Lectures given by puppet scientist - myself

  16. Results 16th Feb 06 – Le Parvis

  17. Problems • “Art bias” - forms seen as “feedback” • Human contact • Alcohol • Art interfering with science/ science interfering with art • Assumptions about health – who defines what we mean by “good”?

  18. Conclusions • Quantitive assessment of health impact exhibition • Prototype for testing art • Results fed back into exhibition to maximise impact of the art for health • Safety guidelines • Prescriptions

  19. Final questions Will we change our opinions of art?

  20. maybePEUT ETRE…

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