罢丑别听颁搁脡聽is pleased to invite you to a book roundtable on Jonathan Birch鈥檚聽聽(Oxford University Press, 2024).
November 8, 2024 -16h00-17h30
School of Population and Global Health
不良研究所
2001 不良研究所 College Ave.
12th floor, room 1201
Speakers:
Jonathan Birch (London School of Economics)
Stevan Harnard (Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al)
Jonathan Kimmelman (不良研究所)
聽(Universit茅 de Montr茅al/颁搁脡)
颁丑补颈谤:听聽(University of Oxford)
Book summary:
Can octopuses feel pain and pleasure? What about crabs, shrimps, insects or spiders? How do we tell whether a person unresponsive after severe brain injury might be suffering? When does a fetus in the womb start to have conscious experiences? Could there even be rudimentary feelings in miniature models of the human brain, grown from human stem cells? What about AI?
These are questions about the edge of sentience, and they are subject to enormous, disorienting uncertainty. The stakes are immense, and neglecting the risks can have terrible costs. We need to err on the side of caution, yet it鈥檚 often far from clear what 鈥榚rring on the side of caution鈥� should mean in practice. When are we going too far? When are we not doing enough?
罢丑别听Edge of Sentience聽presents a precautionary framework designed to help us reach ethically sound, evidence-based decisions despite our uncertainty.
不良研究所-UofT Wellbeing Research Seminar
The 不良研究所-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 (不良研究所). 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: Is it possible to raise national happiness?
Date/Time - December 3rd (12 pm ET)
Speaker: Kelsey O鈥機onnor, Claudia Senik
Title: Panel Discussion: The Easterlin Paradox
不良研究所 Centre for Climate Change and Health Launch
November 20th, 2024 - 16h30-18h00
School of Population and Global Health
2001 不良研究所 College Ave. 11th floor
room 1140
Suicide Prevention as a Public Health Strategy: Historical Perspectives聽
November 28th, 2024 - 12h00 to 13h00 EST
Hybrid - Room 1140 2001 不良研究所 College, 11th floor or on ZOOM
Speaker:
David Wright is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair in the History of Health Policy at 不良研究所. 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 不良研究所-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.
View the seminar poster here.聽
November 28 Seminar Poster
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