Maclean’s Interview: Philip Alcabes
Epidemiologist Philip Alcabes talks
with Kate Fillion about swine flu, fear, and the folly of too much preparedness...
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/05/07/macleans-interview-philip-alcabes/2/
Presentations by Professor Philip Alcabes
of Hunter College, NYC, author of:
Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have
Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu
2009, Publisher: Public Affairs
* ISBN-13: 9781586486181
* ISBN: 1586486187
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1. Public Health as a Control Paradigm,
Controlling Contagion, Controlling Disease, and Controlling the Individual
November 12, 2009
320 Bethune College -- The Gallery
York University,
4700 Keele Street
10:00am - 11:30am
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2. Jab!: Putting the Current Movement
for Influenza Vaccination into an Historical Context
November 12, 2009
University of Toronto, Scarborough
College
Arts and Administration Building Room
160
1265 Military Trail, Scarborough
2:00pm – 3:30pm
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3. Public Health as a Control Paradigm,
Controlling Contagion, Controlling Disease, and Controlling the Individual
November 12, 2009
University of Toronto
15 King’s College Circle
Room 152, University College
6:30 pm - 7:30PM
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Room 418, HNES Building
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
Of interest:
*NEW* Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition,
edited by Dennis Raphael
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9
Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life
by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care,
edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox
See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d
Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health Disparities
in Cleveland Ohio
http://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/education