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CONTACT:events@ri.ac.uk
ORGANIZER:The Royal Institution of Great Britain
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DESCRIPTION:From Mesmer and the Age of Enlightenment to the present day\, â
 €˜magnetic healing’ has had many colourful champions all too ready to cla
 im that they can magnetise water\, wood\, air and the human body – and al
 l for therapeutic effect – at a price. 
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\nThis fascination with ‘ani
 mal magnetism’ is perhaps understandable given the almost mythical proper
 ties of magnets: action at a distance being just one of these. But is this 
 fact or fiction? And what have we learned over the years about how we as hu
 man beings interact with the sometimes powerful\, always invisible magnetic
  fields?
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\nIn this discourse we will trace the many and varied ways that
  magnets have been used in healthcare over the centuries\, how they are use
 d currently\, and prospects for their future use. In particular we will loo
 k at new magnetic healing techniques\, and explore the exciting world of op
 portunities in healthcare biomagnetics.  
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\nQuentin Pankhurst is Deputy 
 Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology and a Professor of Physics
  at University College London. Born in New Zealand\, he came to the UK in 1
 983 to study solid state physics at the University of Liverpool\, where he 
 mostly stayed until joining UCL in 1994. Prof Pankhurst now runs research p
 rogrammes in bio- and nanomagnetism aimed at making practical advances in t
 he use of magnetic nanoparticles in healthcare. He is the co-founder of End
 omagnetics Ltd\, a spin-out company which is currently running clinical tri
 als of the SentiMag\, an intra-operative device for breast cancer surgery.

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SUMMARY:What’s new in magnetic healing?
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