Newsletter 188
Contents
National News and Events
- Marrow Petition
- Global Pulse Magazine
- Trainers Database and email list
- Medsin Magazine
Anything Else
- Conference on Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe - volunteers needed
Website and News
The website is for YOUR events being held by YOUR branches, projects and campaigns. It is really, really easy to submit events and news, so please do, and let everyone know what wonderful things you are up to! Join in Medsin discussions at http://www.medsin.org/discuss
National News and Events
Marrow Petition
You may have heard of Adrian Sudbury, a journalist who is the first person to ever be diagnosed with two tyrpes of leukaemia. He has met with Gordon Brown and convinced Alan Johnson and Ed Balls, the Health Secretary and the Education Secretary, that education of young people about blood and bone marrow donation is essential. The government has agreed that a talk will be rolled out to all 14-15 year olds about the importance of donation. But Adrian, like many of us, thinks that another talk to 6th form students would be more helpful as they are then able to make an informed decision about whether they want to donate blood, or organs. He has a petition on the Downing Street website, if you agree please sign. Here is the address:
American Medical Students Association Global Pulse Magazine
The "Spring 2008" issue of Global Pulse (GP), AMSA's International Health Journal, is now online!
Trainers Database and email list
If you are a Medsin trainer (i.e. have done TNT or a similar training workshop or given training sessions or workshops previously), would you please email me from your preferred email account. The old database is a little out of date and it would be great to update it so it's a really valuable resource and also so I can contact you in the future if training opportunities arise. If you could email and let me know your name, region/med school and if there any particular specialist topics you give training on or whether you are a general medsin trainer that would be fab!
Thanks,
Daze
Medsin Magazine
At the Medsin National Conference 2008 in October, Medsin and the Lancet Student will be launching a global health magazine.
This magazine will be published twice a year and distributed to Medsin members at our two conferences. Furthermore, the theme of each magazine will coincide with the theme of the conference.
We are now soliciting articles for the first edition which will be entitled 'Medsin and the Lancet Student present Power and Politics in Global Health' and we would love YOU to contribute.
The publication of this magazine will coincide with the most politically charged months seen in years. With elections in the US, Russia, the Olympic Games in China, the shifting political landscape of Latin America; the flux of emerging and established powers are likely to have huge implications for global health. It is a very interesting theme and it is important to discuss these issues among medical students and health care professionals.
As well as being released in print, this will also be available online on the Medsin and the Lancet Student websites.
Your articles should be no longer than 1000 words and should be submitted by the end of July.
Please send your submissions to: student@lancet.com or rhona.macdonald@lancet.com.
Please visit www.medsin.org/magazine or www.thelancetstudent.com for further details. And please forward this to your local members!
Anything Else:
Conference on Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
July 2-4th
A conference hosted by the University of Liverpool & Liverpool John Moores University on behalf of the British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.
2008 marks Liverpool's celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration that has in many ways transformed the city as private capital and expertise has poured in. The transformation of the local state into a growth machine has been accompanied by shifts in crime control and community safety, spatial regulation, forms of policing and discourses of urban belonging.
Like in other cities, there are significant undersides to urban regeneration and the culture it seeks to impose - undersides which rarely figure in official and academic discourse. Much of Liverpool and its surrounding areas remain scarred by poverty, under-employment, and racism. At the same time, whilst the marginalised are subjected to criminalisation, the social and criminal justice supports for the victims of the crimes and harms of the powerful either remain virtually non-existent or under threat. We wish to critically explore the extent and direction of change in our cities and how these are re-framing practices of power, justice and the right to the city.
- Conference is free to students, unwaged, voluntary-sector organisations.
- Otherwise £35 for the full conference, or day rates are: £20 for Thurs 3rd, £10 each for Wed 2nd & for Fri 4th
For more information visit here or to register click here or email here
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Volunteers Needed
Following two years of the successful Fringe show, 'get up stand up' the show will be running for the third year in 2008 on August 3-25 2008. There will be top comedians every night plus the best of Edinburgh's musicians and Hollywood Award winning film, 'Anthropology 101'.
The venue is the jazz bar in the heart of the festival. Volunteers are needed in the following areas: hospitality, front of House, sound desk and promoting the show.
For further information email
Last updated on Saturday 28 June 2008 at 15:12.
