L'association
canadienne d'anthropologie physique, Congrès CAPA 2008
le 5 à 8, Novembre, Hamilton, Ontario
36th
Annual Meeting, Canadian Association
for Physical Anthropology
November
5-8, 2008, Hamilton, Ontario
Banquet:
Friday, November 7, 7:00 pm
East Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel
Cost: Regular Member: $45.00 Student Members: $25.00
Banquet Speaker: Dr.
David Waltner-Toews
Department of Population Medicine,
Ontario Veterinary College,
University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Title: Chicken, Sex and Salmonella
Eating is the most intimate relationship we have with the planet, both as individuals, and as a species; we begin our relationship with a French kiss the first time we eat, and grow through a lifetime of passions and obsessions that have literally reshaped the planet. Emerging diseases such as avian influenza and salmonella are the STDs of the food world, and the stories of their changing patterns tell us a great deal about how this relationship has changed over time. Dr. Waltner-Toews will explore some of these stories and what they are telling us.
David Waltner-Toews is a poet, essayist, fiction-writer, veterinarian, epidemiologist, husband, and father of two grown children. He specializes in diseases people share with animals (zoonoses) through food, water or the environment, and is known internationally for developing community-based ecosystem approaches to health. Much of his research is on integrating socio-economic, cultural, environmental and health concerns using community-based systems approaches.
A Mennonite Winnipeger by birth, he is currently a professor in the Department of Population Medicine at the University of Guelph. He is author of half a dozen published books of poetry and three of non-fiction, as well as author or co-author of more than 90 peer-reviewed scholarly papers. In 2007, he published a murder mystery (Fear of Landing, Poisoned Pen Press) and a book about diseases people get from animals (The Chickens Fight Back, Greystone Books). See his book page for more information.
He is founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (www.nesh.ca), and has been principle collaborator on ecosystem health research and development projects in Canada, the Peruvian Amazon, Central America, East Africa and Nepal. His life-long vocation is to discover the "real-life" stories that can help people find sustainable and convivial ways to live on this planet, a kind of narrative therapy for a dysfunctional species.
He is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, Pen Canada, The League of Canadian Poets, the College of Veterinarians of Ontario, the Canadian Public Health Association, the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics, the Canadian Society for International Health and the International Soceity for Ecology and Health. He is Arts & Culture Editor the for international journal EcoHealth.
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