New Pills for World Ills

  • Lisa Erdman (Contributor)

    Activity: Talk or presentation typesConference presentation

    Description

    In this workshop, participants collaborate to create new (fictitious) medications to cure social and political problems. Through active brainstorming and hands-on visual production, ‘New Pills for World Ills’ allows for playful exploration of the concept of medicalization, and the marketing strategies of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising.
    Period28 Nov 2017
    Event titleHealth Humanities and Arts in Health International Symposium
    Event typeConference
    LocationDerbyshire, United KingdomShow on map
    Degree of RecognitionInternational

    Keywords

    • medicalization
    • art
    • satire
    • dialogue
    • politics