A life of learning

What is health? Is it fair to classify people into two distinct groups of either “healthy” or “ill”? What is health for a terminal-stage cancer patient? What is health for a healthy young person? Is health all about trying to be safe from risk factors? Can the concept of health go beyond categorizing between “healthy” or “ill”? This seminar revolves around these crucial and relevant questions. Health has always been looked at by the pathogenic orientation and, therefore, the major goal has been to keep ourselves safe from risk factors and prevent disease. However, we can have an alternative view of health and focus on helping ourselves and others to move toward better health in the health-disease continuum. This alternative view (also referred to as salutogenic orientation) proposes the continuum of health-disease instead and tries to encompass everyone irrespective of whether one is a terminally ill patient or has been recently diagnosed with diabetes. This seminar aims to reinvent the concept of health with a salutogenic orientation. It aims to focus on discussing the origins of health rather than the origins of disease. I will briefly walk through the origin of salutogenesis and its relevance in promoting people’s health. I will also introduce the concept of sense of coherence, which has been seen to facilitate health and well-being, build up resilience and protect against psychological stress. This course examines the history of Ireland from the 18th through the 20th centuries. To examine this period in Irish history, we will engage a wide array of folk music, which embodies the substantial political, social and economic changes the country endured. Major topics in this course will include the Irish Rebellion of 1798, the Great Famine, the Easter Rising of 1916, and the Troubles of the late 20th century. This course will focus on an overview of the drug development process, from idea to execution, and all stages in between. Learn what drives the pharmaceutical industry and how the process translates to treatment pricing. This series includes an overview of cancer research, chronic pain, drug abuse, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and the COVID-19 pandemic. a.m. | In-person This talk focuses on the nature and role of emotion in communication. We will look at the differences between feeling and thinking (i.e., between affective and cognitive processes) in interpersonal social interaction. Emphasis will be placed on the different roles thinking, feeling, emotion and motivation (i.e., drive) play in our relational communication and memory across a range of interpersonal, face-to-face social settings.