TY - JOUR TI - Mind-Boggling Medical History: creating a medical history game for nurses AU -Sarah Chaney AU -Sally Frampton PY - 2019 VL - IS - Spring 2019 KW - gamification KW - medical history KW - medical humanities KW - Nursing education KW - nursing history KW - public engagement AB - This article examines the development of the resource Mind-Boggling Medical History, a card game developed to introduce medical and healthcare history to new and non-traditional audiences for the subject. We explore the methods we used to develop and improve the game, which was reliant on stakeholder participation. We then focus on the impact of Mind-Boggling Medical History on nurses, who have constituted one of the game’s key audiences, and explore its role in supporting nurses’ critical engagement with changing knowledge and concepts of evidence. We also evaluate the limitations in our own approach to collaboration with nurses. Through this, we elucidate the relative lack of engagement, historically speaking, there has been between humanities scholars and nurses. We conclude by pointing to ways in which resources like Mind-Boggling Medical History can open up the academic medical humanities to audiences that the discipline rarely caters to. N1 - Application to the AHRC Follow-on Funding scheme was made available to us through Sally Frampton’s position as Postdoctoral Researcher on the AHRC Science in Culture Theme Large Grant ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ (grant number LH/L007010/1). N1 - Although not unheard of. For example, Emilie Savage-Smith, Professor of the History of Islamic Science at the University of Oxford has, in collaboration with the University’s Museum of the History of Science and funded by the Wellcome Trust, developed a board game based on research about medieval Islamic medicine; http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/wellcomegames/index.php/en/ (accessed 28 August 2018). N1 - For example the Science Museum’s 2012 exhibition on pain was co-produced with doctors and pain sufferers, but not nurses; ‘Uncovering the personal experience of pain’, 2012, https://painlessexhibition.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/uncovering-the-personal-experience-of-pain/ (accessed 28 August 2018). The 2016 exhibition ‘Wounded: Conflict, Causalities and Care’ was produced in consultation with war veterans and focused on medical figures such as Harold Gillies and Henry Tonks, ‘Wounded: From Shell Shock to PTSD’, 2016, https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wounded-from-shell-shock-to-ptsd/ (accessed 28 August 2018) ; ‘Exposing the Face of War’, 2016, https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/exposing-the-face-of-war/#js-searchmenu__panel (accessed 28 August 2018). The 2016/2017 exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’, asked visitors to ‘reimagine the institution, informed by the experiences of the patients, doctors, artists and reformers who inhabited the asylum or created alternatives to it’, ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’, 2016, https://wellcomecollection.org/bedlam (accessed 28 August 2018). N1 - ‘Mind-Boggling Medical History: HSG Summary Report’, p 13 N1 - ‘Mind-Boggling Medical History: HSG Summary Report’, p 4 N1 - Heritage Support Group, ‘Mind-Boggling Medical History: HSG Summary Report’, p 14, https://mbmh.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/mbmh_final_report.pdf (accessed 28 August 2018) N1 - This is still in print, now in its 4th edition (2011). N1 - ‘Mind-Boggling Medical History: HSG Summary Report’, p 14 N1 - https://www.independent.co.uk/student/career-planning/jane-salvage-too-posh-to-wash-is-a-common-charge-758956.html (accessed 28 August 2018) PB - The Science Museum Group SN - 2054-5770 LA - eng DO - 10.15180/191104 UR - https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/mind-boggling-medical-history/ T2 - Science Museum Group Journal