Dr. David T. Suzuki
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David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.
David has received consistently high acclaim for his thirty years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things.
His eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For CBC Radio he founded the long running radio series, Quirks and Quarks and has presented two influential documentary series on the environment, From Naked Ape to Superspecies and It's a Matter of Survival.
An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He is professor emeritus with UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute. From 1969 to 1972 he was the recipient of the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Award for the "Outstanding Canadian Research Scientist Under the Age of 35".
David has received numerous awards for his work, including a UNESCO prize for science, a United Nations Environment Program medal and the Order of Canada. He has 15 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, the US and Australia. For his work in support of Canada's First Nations people, David has received many tributes and has been honoured with five names and formal adoption by two tribes.
David was born in Vancouver, BC in 1936. During World War II, at the age of six, he was interned with his family in a camp in BC. After the war, he went to high school in London, Ontario. He graduated with Honours from Amherst College in 1958 and went on to earn his PhD in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.
The author of more than 30 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He lives with his wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, and two children in Vancouver.
For a more complete list of David's professional accomplishments and awards, please refer to his Detailed CV.
To read some of Dr. Suzuki's latest writings, please visit the Science Matters archives. Each week in Science Matters, Dr. Suzuki examines how changes in science and technology affect our lives and the world around us.
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/About_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/If you ever have the opportunity to hear him speak don't miss it. Maybe when you hear his story about what turned him around and changed his life you'll understand.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/BioethicistBioethics concerns the relationships between biology Biology is the science of life. It is concerned with the characteristics and behaviors of organisms, how species and individuals come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with their environment.
Overview of biologyBiology encompasses a broad spectrum of academic fields that are often viewed as independent disciplines. Together, they study life over a wide range of scales:
..... Click the link for more information. , medicine See drugs, medication, and pharmacology for substances that treat patients. This article is about medical practice.
Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with restoring and maintaining health and wellness. Broadly, it is the practical science of preventing and curing diseases. However, medicine often refers more specifically to matters dealt with by physicians and surgeons.
..... Click the link for more information. , cybernetics Cybernetics is a theory of the communication and control of regulatory feedback. The term cybernetics stems from the Greek kybernetes (meaning steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder). Cybernetics is the discipline that studies communication and control in living beings and in the machines built by humans.
A more philosophical definition, suggested in 1958 by Louis Couffignal, one of the pioneers of cybernetics in the 1930s, considers cybernetics as "the art of assuring efficiency of action" (see external links for reference).
..... Click the link for more information. , politics Politics is the process and conduct of decision-making for groups. Although it is usually applied to governments, political behavior is also observed in corporate, academic, religious, and other institutions.
Political science is the study of political behavior and examines the acquisition and application of power, i.e. the ability to impose one's will on another.
History of politics
..... Click the link for more information. , law LAW may stand for:
LAW (weapon) is a US Army light anti-tank weapon
LAW is a law society called Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
See also: law
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This article is about law in society. For other article subjects named law see law (disambiguation). For the legal paper size, see Paper size.
This article is concerned with laws of politics and jurisprudence: rules of conduct which mandate and/or proscribe specified relationships among people and organizations; as well as punishments for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct.
..... Click the link for more information. , ethics Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the "science of morality". In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is "good". The Western tradition of ethics is sometimes called moral philosophy. This is one of the three major branches of philosophy, alongside metaphysics and logic.
The history of ethicsThe formal study of ethics in a serious and analytical sense began with the early Greeks, and later Romans. Important Greek ethicists include the Sophists and Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, who developed ethical naturalism. The study of ethics was developed further by Epicurus and the epicurean movement, and by Zeno and the stoics.
..... Click the link for more information. , philosophy
Asking what is Philosophy is itself a philosophical activity, though philosophers will more often use such specific questions as a starting point:
What things are real? What is the nature of those things? Do some things exist independently of our perception? What is the nature of space and time? What is the nature of thought and thinking? What is it to be a person? What is it to be conscious? Is there a god? Questions of this type are traditionally labelled metaphysical in the West.
..... Click the link for more information. , and theology Theology is literally rational discourse concerning God (Greek èåïò, theos, "God", + ëïãïò, logos, "rational discourse"). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics.
History of the term The term theologia is used in Classical Greek literature, with the meaning "discourse on the Gods or cosmology" (see Lidell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon for references). Aristotle divided theoretical philosophy into mathematice, phusike and theologike, with the latter corresponding roughly to metaphysics, which for Aristotle included discussion of the nature of the divine.
..... Click the link for more information. . Disagreement exists about the proper scope for the application of ethical evaluation to questions involving biology. Some bioethicists would narrow ethical evaluation only to the morality of medical treatments Therapy or treatment is the act of remediation of a health problem, after the diagnosis. Different types of therapy include:
drug therapy, where drugs are used to treat an issue
surgery
radiation therapy
psychotherapy, where combinations of drugs and communications are used to treat a mental health issue.
occupational therapy
recreational therapy
speech therapy
physical therapy (physiotherapy)
..... Click the link for more information. or technological Technology has more than one definition. One is the development and application of tools, machines, materials and processes that help to solve human problems. As a human activity, technology predates both science and engineering.
The term technology thus often characterises inventions and gadgets using recently-discovered scientific principles and processes. However, even very old inventions such as the wheel exemplify technology.
..... Click the link for more information. innovations, and the timing of medical treatment of humans. Other bioethicists would broaden the scope of ethical evaluation to include the morality of all actions that might help or harm organisms capable of feeling fear and pain. Bioethics involve many public policy questions that may be politicized-used to mobilize political constituencies-in much the same way that reproductive rights have been exploited by the religious right.
Bioethics issues include:
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