4. The Ethics of Stem Cell Research (July 16, 2007)
Stem cell, medicine, health, disease, science, technology, research, clinical advances, controversy, ethics, law, society, politics, economics, social issue, religion, plasma, cytoplasm, nucleus, white blood cell, chromosome, gene expression, DNA, central
The Effect of Environment on Genes
Dr. Stephen Suomi, Chair of the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, speaks on risk, resilience, and gene X environment interactions in rhesus monkeys and other primates.
Hobi Tribe
Eight hundred years ago, communities of Native Americans built homes in hillside caves, decorated them with art, then abandoned them. This video shows how archeology was to reach conclusions about why certain Native Americans disappeared.
You can go home again: the recovery movement
Myra Piat, PhD, Researcher, Clinical activities, Knowledge Transfer and Teaching Directorate at the Douglas Institute, discusses recovery in mental health.
Thinking and Feeling: Drug Therapies And The Brain
In this Mini-Med talk, Dr. Mimi Israel speaks about how drug therapies that are currently used to treat mental health problems may affect the brain.
Vision: Window On The World
Dr. Burnier speaks about ocular health, how to maintain good vision, and ocular diseases that may cause blindness, emphasizing the pathological mechanism behind such diseases and their possible treatment.
Public Health: The World is One Clinic
Dr. Jody Heymann is the Canada Research Chair in Global Health and Social Policy, a Professor in McGill's Faculties of Arts and Medicine and founding director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
A small voyage around my father's dreams... Sir Tipene O'Regan
Mid-winter dialogues, 14 July 2006. Christchurch School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand.
05 Keep taking the tabloids
5th Maudsley Debate
Keep taking the tabloids: is the media bad for mental health?
27 June 2000 6pm
Young people’s wellbeing
What do we mean by ‘wellbeing’ for young people? How is it shaped by social differences and inequalities, and how can we improve young people's mental and physical health? This unit will examine the range of factors affecting young people’s wellbeing, such as obesity, binge drinking, depression and behavioural problems.
2.2 ‘Race’
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication – whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service – means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This unit explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
1.7 Aspects of identity
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication – whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service – means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This unit explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
Challenging ideas in mental health
Take a new and different look at mental health. This unit invites you to think differently about life's dilemmas by taking account of the views of all concerned, especially people experiencing mental distress. It explores ideas and practice in mental health, and will appeal to a wide range of people.
1.1.1 How to do it
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
Introduction
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
1.2.1 Your learning style
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
1.1.4 Tips on using your computer safely and comfortably
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
1.3.2 The development of online learning
Learning online is one of the great advantages of information technology. This unit will help you establish a safe and comfortable working environment to ensure that your study time at the computer screen does not impact on your health. It also looks at the basic skills for online study, such as file management and installing software.
RVC 28 - Dietary Fatty Acids and Fertility of Humans and Animals
We’re constantly told that too much fat in our diet is bad for the health of ourselves and our animals. However it now seems that very particular types of fats are implicated in determining not only animal health but their reproductive performance. Here Dr Robert Abayasekara and Prof Claire Wathes of the Department Of Veterinary Basic Sciences at the RVC explain their work demonstrating the effect of different polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) on human and animal fertility.
2.1 The sensible body
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the approach to medicine was vastly different from today. Health is now recognised, at least in most European countries, as a universal right, but what was it like in the past? How did social and political boundaries affect access to treatment, and what were the treatments of the day? This unit examines how Scottish healthcare institutions were influenced by these underlying social, economic, political and cultural contexts.
