Finding a Leg to Stand On

Now in its fifth year, this popular module explores what it means to be and to have a body through multiple lenses and practices.

This course is for clinical staff, including nurses, allied health professionals and medical staff, health humanities academics and artists interested in the intersects between healthcare and creative practice. Entry requirements for the Level 6 and Level 7 module will differ. This module is taught by world class experts, clinicians and artists from St George's Medical School and beyond. On successful completion of the module, students will be able to: discuss and interrogate, with peers from contrasting educational backgrounds, the complexities of human experience of identity, embodiment, illness and pain write in critical and more exploratory or experiential ways about the nature of their own clinical or creative and intellectual practices. Communicate findings and conclusions clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences reflect critically on their clinical, intellectual and/or creative practices both individually and in a group.

• London, United Kingdom