panacea ( gk) pan = all, akos = remedy
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Panacea ( GK) pan = all, akos = remedy. (daughter of Aesculapius). Can Art cure Cancer?. What is health?. Wellbeing? Lack of illness? Personal/ Community/ Nation/ World. Testing. Does it cause harm? Is it effective? How effective? Dosing. Science. Objective evidence. Karl Popper. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Panacea (GK) pan = all, akos = remedy
(daughter of Aesculapius)
Can Art cure Cancer?
What is health?
• Wellbeing?
• Lack of illness?
• Personal/ Community/ Nation/ World
Testing
• Does it cause harm?
• Is it effective?
• How effective?
• Dosing
Science
Objective evidence
Karl Popper
• Freud/ Marx/ Einstein
• Principle of falsification
• Verification
• Distinction between Science – “falsifiable”, and “pseudo sciences” – “non-falsifiable”
• Is Art a “pseudo-science”?
Pharmaceutical Trials
• Phase 1 – safety, pharmacokinetics
• Phase 2 – In patients
• Phase 3 – effectivity comparisons
• Phase 4 – re-test, meta-analysis
Trial Principles
• Consent
• Placebo
• Control
• Blind
• Double blind
• Crossover
Health measurement
• Scales
• Calibrated scales – – Eg thermometer
• Mortality – life expectancy
• Morbidity – how ill?
Methods
• Questionaires
• QALY’s
• Consent
• Controlled experiments
• Groups
Questionnaire
Please complete before you look at the exhitbion.Place a vertical mark on the scale in order to describe their mood.
ACTUAL
TIME:
I FEEL ALERT I feel drowsy Score (mm)
I feel calm I feel excited Score (mm)
I feel strong I feel weak Score (mm)
I FEEL MUZZY I feel clear
headedScore (mm)
QALY’s
Quality Adjusted Life Years
– A unifying way of quantifying Morbidity and Mortality
Controlled experiments
• Placebo
• Time in front of exhibits
• Social factors– Conversation– Alcohol– Music
Groups
• Cohort
• Walk-up
• Selected – well– Sick– Art-faithful– Art-sceptics– Scientists
Results
• Data
• Assumptions - health
• All data presented on charts and graphs as part of exhibition
• Lectures given by puppet scientist - myself
Results 16th Feb 06 – Le Parvis Average Congruence Interpretation
Time between questionnaires (minutes) 37.1
Forme/ fatigue -7.0 14 more alert
Calme/ enerve -3.0 14 calmer
Fort/ faible -9.4 19 stronger
Confus/ lucide -15.9 20 less clear headed
Adroit/ maladroit -4.3 12 more co-ordinated
Lethargique/ energetique 5.4 15 more energetic
Satisfait/ mecontent -11.5 20 more content
Agite/ serein 13.3 20 more tranquil
Social interactions 1.1
Drinks 0.4
Problems
• “Art bias” - forms seen as “feedback”
• Human contact
• Alcohol
• Art interfering with science/ science interfering with art
• Assumptions about health – who defines what we mean by “good”?
Conclusions
• Quantitive assessment of health impact exhibition
• Prototype for testing art
• Results fed back into exhibition to maximise impact of the art for health
• Safety guidelines
• Prescriptions
Final questions
Will we change our opinions of art?
maybe
PEUT ETRE…