This webinar will showcase and celebrate the creativity and innovation that UK medical museums have demonstrated this past 18 months.

As governments across the globe have begun vaccinating in response to the current pandemic, waves of vaccine hesitancy and refusal have emerged, generating difficult questions about the nature of medical consent, histories of violence and mistrust, and the interlocking politics surrounding race, gender, disability, nation, and class that shapes patient interactions with state and health authorities. This event brings together five experts from different perspectives to discuss these issues and to consider how a feminist approach to vaccine hesitancy can help us envision a more enduring solution to this crisis of care.

What do the stories of Eyam, the “plague village”, and vaccine pioneer Edward Jenner say to us in the time of COVID-19? And what’s it been like running an incredibly relevant museum during a pandemic?