The Best and Worst of Medicine are two free debates at Wellcome Collection designed to stimulate public debate and argument about the best and worst ideas, phenomena, developments and practice in the world of medicine.

The first debate on the Best took place on 26 June, where four speakers put the case for the top-dog ideas in medical history.

Listen to the live debate:
The Best of Medicine (mp3 format).

(If you have problems, see below.)

The second debate on the Worst took place on 17 July, where four more experts denounced the worst-ever harebrained schemes in medicine and called for them to be chucked into the sin bin of history. We’ll have the audio for that soon.

Join the online debate about the Best and Worst

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