| Alzheimer’s: From Care to Cure and Back |
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Peter Whitehouse, M.D., Ph.D. – Professor of Neurology |
Friday March 23, 2018
12:30-1:30 p.m.
***Alternate Location: Zverina Room of the Dittrick Medical History Center, 3rd floor of the Allen Memorial Library, 11000 Euclid Ave.***
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
Ten years ago, in The Myth of Alzheimer’s: What You Aren’t Being Told About Today’s Most Dreaded Diagnosis, Peter Whitehouse issued a bracing challenge to the way aging processes are perceived and how people who have dementia are regarded by their doctors, families, and by society as a whole.
The core issue is whether it makes more sense to view most cases of the loss of capacities that has been called “Alzheimer’s Disease” as an unexpected interference with the natural course of life, or as a part of the life course that occurs more quickly in some people than others. From one perspective the proper response is medical – especially lots of drugs. The other draws attention to attitudes and approaches to aging and each other both by individuals and society. Put another way, is “healthy aging” a medical outcome or a way of life?
Since the publication of his book the search for pharmaceutical cures has continued, though some manufacturers are showing signs of doubt about potential profits. Professor Whitehouse has continued to work on age/dementia friendly communities, the continuum of long-term care, innovation through integration, and models of health that incorporate psychological, social, and ecological dimensions. Join us as he discusses his work and developments in the social and medical approaches to loss of cognitive capacity as people age.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Peter Whitehouse is Professor of Neurology and former or current professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, History, Nursing, and Organizational Behavior at CWRU. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a strategic advisor in innovation at Baycrest Health Center in Toronto and an associate of the Taos Institute. He founded the International Working Group for the Harmonization of Dementia Drug Guidelines, and worked at CWRU to develop the University Alzheimer Center. Dr. Whitehouse earned his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his MD-PhD (Psychology) from The Johns Hopkins University. He held a faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins before coming to CWRU in 1986. In addition to all his other work, while at CWRU he earned a Master’s degree in Bioethics. He has consulted for numerous pharmaceutical and information technology organizations as well as NGO, academic, and other nonprofits. In 1999 he founded with his wife, Catherine, The Intergenerational School, a unique public multiage, community school (www.tisonline.org). Dr. Whitehouse has devoted himself to creating and participating in innovative learning environments that promote collective wisdom, environmental sustainability, and social justice.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. This week we meet in the Zverina Room, Dittrick Medical History Museum on the 3rd Floor of the Allen Medical Library. That building is located on the southeast corner of Adelbert Road and Euclid Avenue. Enter the building on Adelbert Road and go down the corridor on the left and up the elevator at the end of the hall to the third floor. When you exit the elevator, go slightly right and down the hall; the first and second doors on your left will take you into the museum display area, which you walk through to the Zverina Room.
Parking Possibilities
The closest parking to the Allen Memorial Medical Library building is University Circle Lot 13A, next to the building just uphill on Adelbert. The next closest is the lot underneath Severance Hall, if visitors exit from the Euclid Avenue exit.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
March 30: Panama and Paradise: What Have We Learned from the “Papers,” and Will It Make Any Difference? With Richard Gordon J.D., Professor of Law and Director, Financial Integrity Institute.
April 6: Income Inequality Among Seniors, At Home and Abroad. With Terry Hokenstad Jr. Ph.D., Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, and Emily Campbell M.A., Associate Director, Center for Community Solutions.
April 13: The Eurozone Crisis is Over: Now What? With Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow at the Bruegel think tank in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. ***Alternate Location: Peter B. Lewis Building, Room 202, 11119 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106***
April 20: People and Property. With Peter Gerhart J.D., Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Law.
April 27: Two Sides of Brexit. With Elliot Posner Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science, and Luke Reader Ph.D., SAGES Lecturer. |
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March 19, 2018
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Upcoming Events
Food Politics in 2018: A Humanities Perspective
A discussion with Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor, of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University, Friday March 23, 2018, 4:30 p.m., Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A, 11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH 44106. Registration recommended.
In this lecture Marion Nestle discusses the idea that the paradox of today’s globalized food system is that food insecurity or obesity threaten the health and welfare of half the world’s population. Underlying these problems is an overabundant but inequitably distributed food system in which corporations are forced to expand markets to meet growth targets. The contradiction between business and public health goals has led to a large and growing movement to promote more healthful, environmentally sound, and ethical food choices and to identify a more equitable balance between individual and societal responsibility for those choices.
Marion Nestle is a consumer advocate, nutritionist, award-winning author, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific, economic, and social influences on food choice and obesity, with an emphasis on the influence of food industry marketing. Her books explore issues like the effects of food production on dietary intake, food safety, and access to food and nutrition.
The Continuing Salience of the Terrorism Prosecution
A discussion with Wadie Said, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law, Monday April 16, 2018, 4:30 p.m., CWRU School of Law, Moot Courtroom (A59), 11075 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
The U.S. government’s power to categorize individuals as terrorist suspects and therefore ineligible for certain long-standing constitutional protections has expanded exponentially since 9/11, all the while remaining resistant to oversight. Professor Wadie Said provides an up-to-date dissection of the government’s advantages over suspects in criminal prosecutions of terrorism, which are driven by a preventive mindset that purports to stop plots before they can come to fruition. Professor Said also discusses the background for these controversial policies and practices and then demonstrates how they have impeded the normal goals of criminal prosecution, even in light of a competing military tribunal model. Said explores the emergence of a “terrorist exceptionalism” to normal rules of criminal law and procedure and questions whether the government has overstated the threat posed by the individuals it charges with these crimes, resulting in continuing violations of basic constitutional protections for criminal defendants.
Wadie Said is a graduate of Princeton University and the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as an articles editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Carolina, he was a visiting professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an assistant federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Florida, where he represented one of the defendants in U.S. v. Al-Arian, a complex terrorism conspiracy case. Upon graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Charles P. Sifton of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and as a litigation associate in the New York office of Debevoise and Plimpton, where he helped coordinate the firm’s pro bono political asylum program.
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