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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

• 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…