About this Event
Medicine often begins with looking: at bodies, scans, symptoms, charts, faces and diagnoses. The medical gaze is powerful. It allows clinicians to identify signs, interpret evidence, make decisions and provide treatment. Yet illness is never experienced through sight alone.
Prescription of Perspectives invites visitors to move through a series of sensory stations that explore how perception shapes medical experience. Each station offers a different kind of ‘prescription’: to look more closely, to listen differently, to touch without seeing, to notice the role of smell and taste, to question assumptions, or to reflect on how easily one perspective can be mistaken for the whole truth.
At the centre of the exhibition is the idea that medicine is not only scientific, but also deeply human. Diagnosis, treatment and care are shaped by evidence, but they are also shaped by emotion, uncertainty, memory, communication and trust. Pain may be invisible. A clinical space may change the meaning of an ordinary object. A smell may trigger memory before it can be explained. A philosophical argument may unsettle what once felt obvious.
By moving through the senses, Prescription of Perspectives asks visitors to consider what can be known through the body, and what may be missed when one way of seeing becomes dominant. It explores the gap between illness as something observed from the outside and illness as something lived from within.
Tea and coffee available
All are very welcome
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
PRSC The Space, 17-25 Jamaica Street, Bristol, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
