Join us at King’s College Department for Social Science Health and Medicine with the Bioethics and Society programme for a conversation on:

“The Cure”, an Open Source Cure for Cancer: a conversation with Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi

The network “Citizen Participation in Science and Medicine” is pleased to announce that Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi will be at SSHM on June 4th, 2015  to discus their project “La Cura” (The Cure), an Open Source Cure for Cancer: Hacking Participatory Medicine and the Biopolitics of Data.

When: June 4, 2015, 2-4 pm

Where: Room S -3.18, KCL Strand Campus.

When Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with a brain cancer, he hacked his medical records and opened them up, transforming his disease into a participatory, collaborative performance. In the discussion, we will confront with the biopolitical implications of participatory medicine, and of the rituals of ethical hacking, as critical opportunities to reconsider the role of communities and societies in positive, constructive, inclusive ways.

Please register here (feel free to use this link if you want to invite others):

https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/16349197891/

For more information about “La Cura”, click here. You can also watch Salvatore’s Ted talk here.

For inquiries contact Dr Lorenzo Del Savio: lorenzo.del_savio@kcl.ac.uk