The Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM) is pleased to invite the public, the media and other players in the field to a brand-new series of lectures organized by its Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit on ethical issues related to women's health and well-being.
This new series of entirely free lectures will touch on several aspects of an issue that is as complex as it is little known, thanks to the presence of high-level female speakers.
Documentary filmmaker and postdoctoral researcher Léa Clermont-Dion will open the lecture series on February 6 with a discussion of the documentary La peur au ventre.
On February 20, Lydya Assayag will take an in-depth look at the taboos surrounding women's health.
On March 13, Stanford University's Dr. Diana Greene Foster will examine the consequences of the end of Roe versus Wade in the United States for abortion.
On April 10, Professors Sylvie Lévesque and Suzy Basile will address the issue of obstetrical and gynecological violence, particularly in the context of First Nations women's health.
On May 22, IRCM's Dr. Jane Yardley will devote her talk to the biomedical sciences and the study of sex and gender, using type 1 diabetes and physical activity as examples.
On June 12, researcher Valérie Grand'Maison will focus on women with disabilities.
On October 16, Louise Cordeau, President of the Conseil du statut de la femme, will discuss equality between women and men: 50 years of evolution in Quebec.
Finally, on November 13, the series closes with a discussion on the evolution of women's health and well-being policies in Quebec, with former minister Louise Harel and historian, politician and journalist Dr. Michèle Stanton-Jean.
The Montreal Lecture Series in Health Ethics seeks to bring together clinicians, academics, patients, politicians, public figures, students and community members to reflect on and discuss issues in health ethics. The series has welcomed over a hundred local and international researchers since 2007.
Welcome to all.
