Sociologist PATRICIA KINGORI, Professor of Global Health Ethics at the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES (ETHOX), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) in conversation with award-winning American journalist SUSANNAH CAHALAN (www.susannahcahalan.com/), author of THE GREAT PRETENDER about American psychologist DAVID ROSENHAN's influential 1973 study, ON BEING SANE IN INSANE PLACES. The study used pseudopatients to challenge the process of psychiatric diagnosis. Susannah herself was misdiagnosed with a mental illness, which she documented in BRAIN ON FIRE: MY MONTH OF MADNESS (www.susannahcahalan.com/work-1), and so was well-placed to investigate.

MoRF is an exciting collaboration between ETHOX (www.ethox.ox.ac.uk) and award-winning visual and conceptual artist AL HOPWOOD (www.arhopwood.com/morf), with support from TORCH, THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES (www.torch.ox.ac.uk).

MUSIC: Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga, performed by Gyorgy Pauk, and licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK.

PODCAST COVER: Al Hopwood (www.arhopwood.com/morf)

Sonata for Solo Violin, BB124: Fuga

The Museum of Revelatory Fakes (MoRF) | 03 S Cahalan

Sociologist PATRICIA KINGORI, Professor of Global Health Ethics at the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES (ETHOX), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) joins EFRAM SERA-SHRIAR (Associate Professor of English Studies, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN www.eframserashriar.com/), PROFESSOR CHRISTINE FERGUSON (Chair in English Studies, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING www.stir.ac.uk/people/257490), and MATT TOMPKINS (post-doctoral researcher, Choice Blindness Laboratory, UNIVERSITY OF LUND bit.ly/42rbdht) to discuss the work of colourful American investigator ROSE MACKENBERG, who worked with HARRY HOUDINI in the 1920s to expose spiritualist fraud.

MoRF is an exciting collaboration between ETHOX (www.ethox.ox.ac.uk) and award-winning visual and conceptual artist AL HOPWOOD (www.arhopwood.com/morf), with support from TORCH, THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES (www.torch.ox.ac.uk).

MUSIC: Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga, performed by Gyorgy Pauk, and licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK.

PODCAST COVER: Al Hopwood (www.arhopwood.com/morf)

The Museum of Revelatory Fakes (MoRF) | 04 On Rose Mackenberg

Sociologist PATRICIA KINGORI, Professor of Global Health Ethics at the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES (ETHOX), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) in conversation with British chemist PROFESSOR SIR MARTYN POLIAKOFF (royalsociety.org/people/martyn-poliakoff-12107/) about his friendship with physical chemist and writer DAVID JONES (www.theguardian.com/science/2017/au…-jones-obituary), famous for his spoof ‘Daedalus’ columns for the New Scientist and developer of a 'fake' perpetual motion machine, whose secret David Jones – tantalisingly - never revealed.

MoRF is an exciting collaboration between ETHOX (www.ethox.ox.ac.uk) and award-winning visual and conceptual artist AL HOPWOOD (www.arhopwood.com/morf), with support from TORCH, THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES (www.torch.ox.ac.uk).

MUSIC: Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga, performed by Gyorgy Pauk, and licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK.

PODCAST COVER: Al Hopwood (www.arhopwood.com/morf)

The Museum of Revelatory Fakes (MoRF) | 05 M Poliakoff on D Jones

Sociologist PATRICIA KINGORI, Professor of Global Health Ethics at the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES (ETHOX), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) introduces THE MUSEUM OF REVELATORY FAKES (MoRF)(https://torch.ox.ac.uk/morf-homepage) podcast series which explores how the fake can reveal a hidden truth and how fakes can be deployed to reveal other fakes, for example, the use of 'fake' or 'pseudo' patients to expose fake doctors.

MoRF is an exciting collaboration between ETHOX (www.ethox.ox.ac.uk) and award-winning visual and conceptual artist AL HOPWOOD (www.arhopwood.com/morf), with support from TORCH, THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES (www.torch.ox.ac.uk).

SERIES CONTRIBUTORS
(1) Oxford microbiologist, DR ELISA GRANATO (elisagranato.com/): the first person to receive the pioneering Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, who subsequently became the victim of a bizarre death hoax;
(2) award-winning American journalist SUSANNAH CAHALAN (www.susannahcahalan.com/): author of THE GREAT PRETENDER about American psychologist DAVID ROSENHAN's influential 1973 study, ON BEING SANE IN INSANE PLACES;
(3) EFRAM SERA-SHRIAR (Associate Professor of English Studies, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN www.eframserashriar.com/), PROFESSOR CHRISTINE FERGUSON (Chair in English Studies, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING www.stir.ac.uk/people/257490), and MATT TOMPKINS (post-doctoral researcher, Choice Blindness Laboratory, UNIVERSITY OF LUND bit.ly/42rbdht) on American investigator ROSE MACKENBERG, who worked with HARRY HOUDINI in the 1920s to expose spiritualist fraud; and
(4) British chemist PROFESSOR SIR MARTYN POLIAKOFF (royalsociety.org/people/martyn-poliakoff-12107/) on his friendship with physical chemist and writer DAVID JONES (www.theguardian.com/science/2017/au…-jones-obituary), famous for his spoof ‘Daedalus’ columns for the New Scientist and developer of a 'fake' perpetual motion machine, whose secret David Jones – tantalisingly - never revealed.

MUSIC: Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga, performed by Gyorgy Pauk, and licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK.

PODCAST COVER: Al Hopwood (www.arhopwood.com/morf)

Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga

The Museum of Revelatory Fakes (MoRF)| 01 P Kingori

Sociologist PATRICIA KINGORI, Professor of Global Health Ethics at the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES (ETHOX), UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) in conversation with Oxford microbiologist, DR ELISA GRANATO (https://elisagranato.com/), the first person to receive the pioneering Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, who subsequently became the victim of a bizarre death hoax.

MoRF is an exciting collaboration between ETHOX (www.ethox.ox.ac.uk) and award-winning visual and conceptual artist AL HOPWOOD (www.arhopwood.com/morf), with support from TORCH, THE OXFORD RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE HUMANITIES (www.torch.ox.ac.uk).

MUSIC: Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124: Fuga, performed by Gyorgy Pauk, and licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK.

PODCAST COVER: Al Hopwood (www.arhopwood.com/morf)

The Museum of Revelatory Fakes (MoRF) | 02 E Granato

Join PATRICIA KINGORI and guests, MADELEINE MASON ROANTREE (The Vida Consultancy), RACHEL JENKINS (genuinefake & Ka’ssa), DEE JARRETT-MACAULEY (Writer) and JOSE TEUNISSEN (London College of Fashion) as they explore the genuine and the fake in the context of online dating, fiction, architecture and the city, and fashion.

EXPLORING THE GENUINE FAKE with PATRICIA KINGORI (https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori) is brought to you by the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.  Associate Professor PATRICIA KINGORI is Principal Investigator of a large WELLCOME TRUST funded project examining fakes, fabrications and falsehoods in health and medicine, including the concept of the ‘genuine fake’, the idea that something can be both real and fake at the same time.  

EXPLORING THE GENUINE FAKE was born out of a workshop at Somerville College, Oxford, in 2019, which brought together people from very different fields to discuss the ‘genuine fake’, some of the challenges and risks it can present, and how we can learn to navigate this minefield when it matters.

FURTHER INFORMATION

The WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES aims to lead debate on the ethical requirements for scientific research and technological innovation.
https://www.weh.ox.ac.uk/

FAKES, FABRICATIONS & FALSEHOODS | PATRICIA KINGORI, Associate Professor in Global Health Ethics & Wellcome Senior Investigator
https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/patricia-kingori

MUSIC | Inquisitive Pizz - Jonathan Slatter (PRS) © Sounds Visual Music Ltd

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the WELLCOME CENTRE FOR ETHICS & HUMANITIES

EXPLORING THE GENUINE FAKE 02 | Online dating, fiction, architecture & fashion

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