Medicine without doctors

Our Project

Medicine Without Doctors explores how medical practice is rapidly changing. We challenge existing power structures in medicine and reimagine what care looks like, how medicine is practiced, and how it's taught.

We explore how playful methods can help us to break down the walls between medicine, academia, activism, and community work to develop a just and equitable future for health care.

our Approach

As the world around us experiences turbulent changes—digital, political, social, and cultural—the role of the doctor and of health care is shifting too. We urgently need to find and support a new approach to medicine and care which works for and is shaped by those most in need.

We study the ongoing disruption and transformation of medicine with four case studies: Abortion care, LGBTQ+ health activism, Artificial Intelligence and Physician Associate. We ask in each of these cases how medicine without doctors might be imagined, and what such vision would enable or undermine.  Across these areas, we study how medical authority is reshaped, how our understanding of care changes, and whose voices come to matter. Our collaborative work in the project is anchored within the thematic concepts of care and voice, and by methodological commitment to play.

For more on our project, check out: medicinewithoutdoctors.org