“Slices through the confusion and the contradictions with grace, elegance and compassion.” Chris van Tulleken

Advances in genetic sequencing techniques mean we may all soon be screened for potential abnormalities. But is a diagnosis an unqualified good thing? Could it make us worse, not better?

In The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan takes moving stories of real people to explore the complex world of modern diagnosis, and examines the new possibilities to help patients.

Suzanne O’Sullivan is an Irish neurologist working in Britain. Her first book, Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, won the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize.

In conversation with Ian Robertson, a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist.

Duration: 1 hour