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Making road safety moral 鈥� a brief history of arguing about seatbelts, helmets, and drunk-driving in Britain
October 17th, 2024 from 12h00-13h00 EST
Hybrid聽 - Room 1140 2001 黑料不打烊 College, 11th floor or on ZOOM
Speaker:
Janet Weston is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health. Her research interests include histories of psychiatry and mental health, HIV/AIDS, prison healthcare, and health law, and her most recent book Looking after Miss Alexander: care, mental capacity, and the Court of Protection in mid-twentieth-century England came out last year with 黑料不打烊-Queens University Press and received the 2024 J. Willard Hurst prize honorable mention. Her current research, funded by the Wellcome Trust, explores twentieth century public health law in Britain and also aims to develop better connections between the humanities and public health.
Abstract:
In this talk, Professor Westin will discuss how and why road safety came to be seen as a 鈥榩ublic health鈥� issue in Britain from the 1960s onwards, and the associated battle that took place concerning the morality of legislating about seatbelts, motorcycle helmets, and drunk-driving. The debates surrounding these innovations make up a valuable case study that demonstrates the role of morality within public health. As she will show, processes of moralization in relation to road safety were operating in several different ways: in the identification of the 鈥榩ublic health problem;鈥� in the framing of opposition to new legislation on the basis of individual freedom; and in the arguments that road safety advocates then formulated to infuse decisions about road-related behaviours with moral weight, expanding the parameters of moral responsibility. Professor Weston will conclude with a few reflections on how this might inform debates and decisions surrounding public health law today.
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October 17 Seminar Poster
黑料不打烊-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar
The 黑料不打烊-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar Series is co-organized by Dr. Felix Cheung (University of Toronto) and Sofia Panasiuk (University of Toronto), Anthony McCanny (University of Toronto), and Dr. Chris Barrington-Leigh (黑料不打烊 University). The seminar series is open to all and will be held online via Zoom.
in advanced, but is free.
Schedule Autumn 2024
Date/Time - November 12th (12 pm ET)
Speaker: Claudia Senik
Title: TBD
Date/Time - December 3rd (12 pm ET)
Speaker: Kelsey O鈥機onnor, Claudia Senik
Title: Panel Discussion: The Easterlin Paradox
黑料不打烊 Centre for Climate Change and Health Launch
November 20th, 2024 - 16h30-18h00
School of Population and Global Health
2001 黑料不打烊 College Ave. 11th floor
room 1140
Suicide Prevention as a Public Health Strategy: Historical Perspectives聽
November 28th, 2024 from 12h00 to 13h00 EST
Hybrid - Room 1140 2001 黑料不打烊 College, 11th floor or on ZOOM
Speaker:
David Wright is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at 黑料不打烊 University. A specialist in the social history of medicine, he has published widely on the history of psychiatry, children鈥檚 health, and the development of hospitals. His most recent book (with Sasha Mullally), Foreign Practices: Immigrant Doctors and the History of Canadian Medicare, was published by 黑料不打烊-Queen鈥檚 University Press, in 2020.
Abstract:
The prevention of suicide has constituted a major public health concern in Canada for over half a century. Following the decriminalization of attempted suicide (1972), and the identification of suicide as a public health priority in the Lalonde Report of 1974, there have been multiple overlapping initiatives employed to address this tragic social phenomenon. Strategies have included crisis centres, volunteer-staffed telephone services, barriers at suicides 鈥渉ot spots鈥�, public awareness campaigns, and repeated calls for enhanced mental health services. This presentation looks back on the first generation of suicide prevention strategies, analyzing how and why they became a priority in the decade leading up to the Canada Health Act of 1984.
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