For those interested in visting Northern Ontario

An open forum on:
"GLOBALIZATION: HEALTH AND THE ETHICS OF CARE"

Thursday, October 23, 2003, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm
Moot Court, Osgoode Law School
York University

Sponsored by:
Pat Armstrong, CHSRF/CIHR chair in Health Services and Nursing Research
York Centre for Health Studies
York Centre for Practical Ethics

Opening remarks by Lorna Marsden, York University President.

Morning Keynote Speaker: Lesley Doyal, Professor of Health and Social
Care, University of Bristol.

"WOMEN AND HEALTH IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT," will explore the links between
global restructuring, gender and health. It will look at two questions:
how do gender relations mediate the impact of global restructructuring on
health and how might the globalisation of health affect the future of
gender relations?   This will include discussion of the health
implications of changes in the gender division of labour and the gender
division of resources with the main focus being on the experiences of poor
women. The presentation will conclude with an outline for a new research
agenda.

"CANADIAN REFLECTIONS" panel will follow the presentation, chaired by
Catherine Kulisek, Women's Bureau Health Canada, with Joan Gilmour,
Professor, Osgoode Law School and Linda Silas, President, Canadian
Federation of Nurses Unions.


Afternoon keynote speaker: Len Doyal, Professor of Medical Ethics, Queen
Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Barts and the London, UK.

"NEEDS, RIGHTS AND DUTIES: THE ETHICS OF HEALTH CARE."
Many texts on health care ethics have insufficient philosophical
justifications for the classic duties of care to protect health, respect
autonomy and to do so justly. This presentation will develop such a
justification through arguing that physical health and individual autonomy
constitute universal needs common to all cultures. A moral theory of
universal duties and rights will be shown to follow from basic human needs
understood in these terms, along with a conception of social justice
informed by a radical reading of Rawls and Habermas. Classic formulations
of the classic duties of care within health care ethics will then be shown
to follow from these moral arguments, as well as a moral critique of these
formulations. This presentation will argue that until bioethics
incorporates wider political and economic perspectives within its
analysis, it will at best be narrowly limited in scope and at worst
reactionary in its practical and professional implications.

Respondent: Joel Lexchin, MD, School of Health Policy and Management


Open to the public; no registration fee.
Reception following at York Centre for Health Studies, 214 York Lanes,
York University.

With generous support from CHSRF/CIHR, Great West Life.

For further information, contact 416 736 5941 or email [log in to unmask]

Wendy Winters
Centre Coordinator
York University, Centre for Health Studies,
214 York Lanes, 4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, Ontario  M3J 1P3

Tel:  (416) 736-5941
Fax:  (416) 736-5986

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