Professor Wright (Rosalind.wright@mssm.edu) from Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai NY shows how important it is to consider social stressors along with environmental contaminants. Their combined effects impair lung development in children and contribute to asthma and health disparities in urban areas. CUMULATIVE IMPACTS takes into account environmental contaminants and social stressors that affect individuals and communities. Cumulative impacts of environmental factors and social stressors during early life increase disease in children and contribute to health disparities. ...
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North American Futures: Canada-US Perspectives
Panel 4: Managing the Arctic
Moderator:
Nelson Graburn (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, and Co-Director of the Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley)
Panelists:
Franklyn Griffiths (Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Ignatieff Chair Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Toronto)
David Caron (Professor of Law and Co-Director, Law of the Sea Institute, School of Law, UC Berkeley)
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"Kanyasulkam" by Gurajada Appa Rao
This is a play written in 1892 to fight against social evils such as bride's price (fathers selling their own daughters at their very young age to older men for money), child marriages, pathetic condition of young widows, ill treatment of women, and to encourage widow remarriages.