Forthcoming Events

Violence, The Surgeon and The Modern World

Friday 31st October 2008,
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1G 0AE

Violence in the modern world
Is it different to before?
How should surgeons respond?

Violence seems to be increasing – in society, cultural imagery and international politics.
This one day meeting explores whether surgeons have role
beyond the immediate clinical care of patients in making society safer from violence

Session 1: Narratives of violence
Narratives of surgeons from Zimbabwe, Iraq, United Kingdom

Session 2: Understanding violence
Talks on cultural, political and military aspects of violence

Session 3: Responding to violence
Surgical responses, public education, political witness

Speakers include academic and research experts
on the political, social and human causes and consequences of violence

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For further details please contact:

Miss Bhavnita Borkhatria,
International Development Manager,
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain & Ireland,
35 / 43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE.
Tel: 020 7304 4770
Fax: 020 7 430 9235
Email: bhavnita@asgbi.org.uk