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From Women and Health Protection

For Immediate Release
October 20, 2005

Dear Editors and Producers,

Please consider attending the following important forum on women’s health
in Toronto.  All keynote speakers and workshop leaders are available for
media interview prior to, and on the day of, the event.

Remembering Ruth Cooperstock  
Women and Pharmaceuticals 20 Years Later 

When?  Tuesday, November 1, 2005; 2-8pm.
Where? University of Toronto, 6th floor, Health Sciences Building, 155
College Street (near McCaul).

Concurrent Workshops, 2-5pm: 

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE WORKSHOPS ARE FREE, PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
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Featuring:

*Warren Bell, MD, practicing GP in rural BC, and past president of the
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment: “Why just drugs,
for heaven’s sake? Broadening the scope of ‘therapy’ to include the real
world.”

 *Barbara Mintzes, PhD, UBC Therapeutics Initiative, and Vice-President,
DES Action Canada: “Diane, Julie, Jasmin . . . who are these women and
what are they doing in your medicine cabinet?”

*Leonore Tiefer, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Professor, NYU School of
Medicine:  “Is sex more like dancing or digestion?  The medicalization of
women’s sexuality.”
 
The workshops will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. 

Panel Discussion, 6-8pm
“Women and pharmaceuticals: The long and winding road”

Featuring panelists: 
*Connie Clement, Executive Director, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse; 

*Paula Caplan, PhD, Clinical and Research Psychologist, author and 
lecturer, Harvard University

*Karen Seabrooke, Inter Pares (Ottawa) and member of the Women and Health
Protection Steering Ctte.


Who was Ruth Cooperstock?
Ruth Cooperstock was a medical sociologist and feminist who did pioneering
work on psychotropic drug use and the prescribing patterns of physicians.
A popular teacher and researcher at the University of Toronto and the
Addiction Research Foundation in the 1970s and 80s, Ruth Cooperstock left
a legacy in the form of her work on sex differences in the use of
mood-modifying drugs, work which is still cited today.

This event honours the 20th anniversary of her untimely death from breast
cancer in 1985.

About the Sponsors
Women and Health Protection, in collaboration with the Ruth Cooperstock
Memorial Lectureship Committee, are proud to sponsor this important
symposium.  For more information on this event, visit: www.whp-apsf.ca


For media interviews with keynote speakers, contact:
Anne Rochon Ford, Coordinator
Women and Health Protection
Cell: 416-712-9459
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.whp-apsf.ca

Kathleen O’Grady, Director of Communications
Canadian Women’s Health Network
Cell: 514-886-2526
Email: [log in to unmask]
Website: www.cwhn.ca

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