One day Student and Members Conference:
Cambridge University Medical Humanities Society (CUMHS) in collaboration with the Association of Medical Humanities (AMH)
18th October 2025
From Heroes to Robots: Discourses on Medicine’s Identity
What is medicine becoming—and what should it be?
Keynote speaker – Professor Roger Kneebone
This conference interrogates the existential, ethical, and systemic pressures redefining what it means to be a healer in the 21st century amid competing demands—between art and AI algorithms, empathy and efficiency, burnout, individual care and institutional requirements.
Key sub themes:
The Erosion of the “Hero” Narrative
Technology’s Double-Edged Sword
The Crisis of Meaning in Medical Training
Medicine as Labor vs. Vocation
Reclaiming the Soul of Medicine
At: Newnham College, Cambridge
Last few tickets available here
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Submissions: medhumsoc@cusu.cam.ac.uk
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