UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM - CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
TRAUMA INJURY & DISEASE
In her role as medical effects make-up artist, Joolz delivers workshops interactively by recreating trauma, injury and diseases such as The Bubonic Plague, Syphilis, Anthrax and fractures. Thereby stimulating discussion into medical issues while presenting them in their appropriate medical-
historical context. In this way her approach fulfils the following criteria:
- Support formal and informal learning
- Examine the social & cultural impact of the ailments
- Encourage new ways of thinking about health and disease
- Incorporate new methods of education
- Communicate issues of health in society
- Give a wider understanding of medical history for those with little or no knowledge
- Participants can explore physical and emotional characteristics of injury & disease
- Provide audiences with a chance to ‘live with’ the effects of a particular ailment