[tugs] Thu Jan 23 IES/GOEHU Environment & Health seminar
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Institute for Environmental Studies
and Gage Occupational & Environmental Health Unit
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
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THURS JANUARY 23, 4:00 p.m.
Room 113, Koffler Inst. for Pharmacy Management, 569 Spadina Ave.
STEPHEN BEDE SCHARPER, Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics,
Department and Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
"THE ROLE OF VALUES AND WORLDVIEWS IN ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH"
(abstract and series list below)
For a map, updates, and abstracts,
please see http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/e&h-spring.html
No registration required; all are welcome.
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ABSTRACT:
While empirical scientific data is crucial in decision-making
surrounding issues of health and the environment, such data sometimes
emanates from a value system and worldview that stand in marked contrast
to other value systems and worldviews from different ethical, cultural,
and religious perspectives. The question of environment and health is
thus not only a question of science, technology, and policy, but also
one of ethics, values, and worldviews. The presentation will provide a
sketch of some of these different worldviews, as well as analyze the
worldviews that sometimes underlie contemporary scientific conversations
around environment and health, including the "worldview" of global
consumer capitalism.
UPCOMING SEMINARS
THU JANUARY 30 2003
SARAH WAKEFIELD, Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Public Health Sciences,
University of Toronto
"Individual and community responses to environmental health threats:
coping in a risk society"
THU FEBRUARY 6 2003
LORAINE MARRETT, Scientist, Division of Preventive Oncology, Cancer Care
Ontario
Cheryl Rosen, Head of Dermatology, Toronto Hospital
"Ultraviolet radiation and skin cancer: mechanisms, epidemiology and
prevention"
THU FEBRUARY 13 2003
PAM KAUFMAN, Lecturer, Department of Public Health Sciences, University
of Toronto, and
Research Associate, Ontario Tobacco Research Unit, University of Toronto
"Exploring physical and social factors that influence smoking behaviour
in outdoor public places"
THU FEBRUARY 27 2003
GAIL EYSSEN, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University
of Toronto
"Environmental sensitivity: an approach to research from environment to
physiologic mechanisms"
THU MARCH 6 2003
MARK RAIZENNE, Acting Chief of the Air Health Effects Division, Safe
Environments Programme at Health Canada
Title to be determined.
THU MARCH 27 2003
PAT HARPER, Scientist, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick
Children, Toronto; Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Title to be determined.
For more information, please contact:
Mona El-Haddad, 416-978-6526, m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Department of Geography
University of Toronto
Phone: 416-946-3148
Fax: 416-946-3886
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