Dr Agomoni Ganguli Mitra Receives £4.7million to Co-lead on Wellcome Discovery Award
Mon 4 November 2024
Dr Agomoni Ganguli Mitra, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics at Edinburgh Law School, will act as a co-Investigator on a new Wellcome Discovery award, worth £4.7million, together with colleagues from the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute and external stakeholders.
The project is entitled Medicine Without Doctors: Reimagining Care and Voice Through Play. It is a 6-year interdisciplinary research study will fundamentally shape our understanding of contemporary and fast paced disruption to the practice of medicine. While change and shifts in authority are not new, the present historical moment demands that the humanities and social sciences reckon with an intensification of technological, social and political upheaval. Combining expertise from history, sociology, philosophy, law, design and science and technology studies, Medicine without Doctors investigates medicine practised otherwise.
The project is a collaboration between University of Edinburgh researchers, not-for-profit community interest company The Love Tank and design studio Andthen. Dedicated to exploring the reshaping of voices, perspectives and experience, the team will investigate whose authority, needs and values are emerging when the doctor’s is decentred, and which are neglected and lost. To stay informed, sign up for the Medicine without Doctors Newsletter: MwD Newsletter