Seminar Series 1: Lecture 3 - Dr Sholom Glouberman
Changing Ideas – Changing Health
Key ideas:
- Three philosophical ideas: order and chaos / disorder - both are significant aspects of the world; Humans' relationships with nature and the need to learn to live in harmony with the natural world. The notion of self - how we know who we are.
- Laplace's demon.
- Inflammation and 'bounce-back-ability' - vital aspects of health based on capacity to deal with stress.
About the speaker
Sholom Glouberman is Philosopher in Residence at Baycrest Health Sciences, founder of Patients Canada and author of A Patient’s History of Medicine.
His doctorate in Philosophy is from Cornell. He’s been an adjunct professor at Toronto, McGill and York Universities. For six years he was a Fellow of the King’s Fund in London England where he designed what remains the Fund’s premier leadership development program. At the Fund he had the chance to observe the ongoing professional struggles in the NHS and to participate in rethinking how healthcare is delivered in London.
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