Health Matters
- Pre-booking not required
- Duration
- Suggested 30-45 mins
- Adult:student ratio
- 1:15
- Suitable for:
- Key Stage 4, Post 16,
Medicine changed faster during the twentieth century than ever before. Using rich object displays and fun interactives, Health Matters explores how medical technology, health surveys and medical research have changed the way we experience medicine.
Displays featuring technologies such as the contraceptive pill show how medicine has had a cultural impact. Others, like the MMR vaccine, show how medicine has created dilemmas.
How do we know smoking is bad for us? The second section of the gallery uses interactives to examine how we measure health, and shows how medicine is as much about preventing ill health as curing it.
The final section of the gallery looks at the science and technologies used by researchers to understand the causes of disease.
