Zoë Playdon, Emeritus Professor Medical Humanities, University of London will speak on end of life issues for trans people: intergenerational agency and identity in trans people’s real-life experience of palliative care

in conversation with

Dr Ajoy Thachil, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust who will discuss Anomie, the pandemic and intergenerational trauma.

We find ourselves in crisis.

In times of crisis, action is at once indispensable and impossible, demanding a whole focus of attention while being dependent on events resolving themselves, requiring front-line workers to intervene while knowing themselves to have severely limited influence and agency. The front line is essentially a conversation with often unknown and always unpredictable forces, whether in the context of a major health crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic, crises of citizenship like #blacklivesmatter and #transrightsarehumanrights, or their related crisis of imagining new futures. As a transdisciplinary field built upon allegiances and collaborations across the humanities, social sciences and medicine, medical humanities offers a unique space for conversation, exploration and possible resolution in the face of the profound challenges we face.

AMH invites you to join and contribute to our free online colloquies, which place two prominent speakers in conversation about their thoughts and experiences of working with crisis at the various front lines of medicine, policy and critical thought. Each colloquy focuses on a particular theme, and is organised as a 30-minute conversation, followed by an hour of public Q & A:

Zoë

Professor and Head of Postgraduate Medical Education at NHS Kent, Surrey and Sussex Regional Deanery for over twenty years, Zoë is a former co-Chair of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists [GLADD] and co-founder with Dr Lynne Jones MP of the Parliamentary Forum on Gender Identity.

Ajoy

General Hospital Psychiatrist who has worked mostly in deprived areas of India, North Sudan and the UK. Currently developing mental health and substance misuse services in a busy general hospital in Croydon. This serves a diverse population who have experienced trauma and/or social exclusion e.g. refugees.

Please note: The Association for Medical Humanities (AMH) is a Charity and this is a free event. The event will be recorded and uploaded to the AMH website (amh.ac.uk). By registering for this event you are agreeing to be recorded. We would like to inform you of other occasional events; please send an email to info@amh.ac.uk if you are not interested in other events.

Image © Lyra Robinson-Winning.