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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 1, The Normal Environment: How Things Got This Way
| | Dickson Despommier |
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In an age characterized by a rapidly changing environment, in which emerging and re-emerging diseases continue to confront us, how can we predict the next major threats to human health? Are we, in fact, aiding the spread of disease by destroying the barriers that keep us from it? In the first of eight e-seminars on medical ecology, professor of public health and microbiology Dickson Despommier explains the interconnectedness of life on earth by exploring the evolution of life itself, and the cycles of nutrients that link us to all the other life on the planet. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 2, The Normal Environment: The Way Things Are Now
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In this second e-seminar of an eight part series, The Normal Environment: The Way Things Are Now, Professor Despommier describes the producer-consumer interactions that drive ecosystems, the types and characteristics of ecoregions of the world, and the often undervalued "free" services (to which he attempts to assign a value) that ecosystems provide for us. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 3, Atmosphere: Stratospheric Problems
| | Dickson Despommier |
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In this third e-seminar of the series Medical Ecology, Professor Despommier probes into one of Earth's great zones—the upper atmosphere. As he describes the basic constituents of the atmosphere and the ecosystem services it provides, Professor Despommier also explores how industry is destroying the atmospheric system, exposing humans and animals on Earth below to severe health threats. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 4, Atmosphere: Problems at Ground Level
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In Atmosphere: Problems at Ground Level, the fourth of eight e-seminars, Despommier investigates the atmosphere at Earth's surface and the consequences of polluting the air around us. From acid deposition to industrial emissions, polluted air threatens the health of humans and ecosystems alike. Despommier elucidates this concept using text, reading materials, data, and state-of-the-art animation and imagery. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 5, Water: It's Not Just H2O
| | Dickson Despommier |
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In Water: It's Not Just H2O, the fifth e-seminar in the series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Despommier delves into another of Earth's great zones—water. He examines closely the hydrological cycle and the ecosystem services it provides, the world's dwindling sources of freshwater, and the effects of water pollution. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 6, Waterborne Infections
| | Dickson Despommier |
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In Waterborne Infections, the sixth e-seminar in the series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Dickson Despommier examines both the pathogens that cause waterborne disease and the role that water plays in their transmission and proliferation. Enter.
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| | Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease—E-Seminar 7, Food: Land Use and Health Risks
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In Food: Land Use and Health Risks, the seventh and final seminar of the e-seminar series Medical Ecology: Environmental Disturbance and Disease, Professor Dickson Despommier touches upon the last of Earth's great zones: land. He focuses his discussion on agriculture, our primary use of land, and the large impact that agriculture has on biodiversity and climate change. Enter.
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| | Brain to Brain: Animal Communication—E-Seminar 1, Scents and Sensibility
| | Darcy B. Kelley |
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In this e-seminar, the first in a series of four, Professor Kelley gives a tour of brain anatomy and shows how nerve cells communicate with one other. She then explores how the fascinating signals of pheromones are used and sensed in the animal kingdom, and whether there is any likelihood that we, too, are lured to one another by odors we can't "smell." Enter.
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| | America's Battle for a Cure: The Culture and Politics of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
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To understand a disease, you must first understand the culture in which that disease exists. Understanding breast cancer in the United States requires understanding the war metaphor that defines it. In this e-seminar, Barron Lerner, associate professor of medicine and public health at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, reveals how America's fight against breast cancer has shaped our treatment of the disease from the turn of the nineteenth century to today. Enter.
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| | Environmental Sustainability: Perspectives on the World
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Professor Mark Levy leads an exploration of the many facets of environmental sustainability in this e-seminar, which is taught in conference-style format and features the perspectives of nine Columbia University faculty members associated with the Center International Earth Science Information Network. Enter.
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