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DESCRIPTION:October 17th\, 2024 12-13h00 PM EST\n\nHybrid - Room 1140\, 11t
 h floor\, 2001 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ College or on ZOOM\n\nSpeaker Biography:\n\nJanet We
 ston is an Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropica
 l Medicine and Director of the LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health. 
 Her research interests include histories of psychiatry and mental health\,
  HIV/AIDS\, prison healthcare\, and health law\, and her most recent book 
 Looking after Miss Alexander: care\, mental capacity\, and the Court of Pr
 otection in mid-twentieth-century England came out last year with 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ-Q
 ueens University Press and received the 2024 J. Willard Hurst prize honora
 ble mention. Her current research\, funded by the Wellcome Trust\, explore
 s twentieth century public health law in Britain and also aims to develop 
 better connections between the humanities and public health.\n\nAbstract:
 \n\nIn this talk\, Professor Westin will discuss how and why road safety c
 ame to be seen as a ‘public health’ issue in Britain from the 1960s onward
 s\, and the associated battle that took place concerning the morality of l
 egislating about seatbelts\, motorcycle helmets\, and drunk-driving. The d
 ebates surrounding these innovations make up a valuable case study that de
 monstrates the role of morality within public health. As she will show\, p
 rocesses of moralization in relation to road safety were operating in seve
 ral different ways: in the identification of the ‘public health problem\;’
  in the framing of opposition to new legislation on the basis of individua
 l freedom\; and in the arguments that road safety advocates then formulate
 d to infuse decisions about road-related behaviours with moral weight\, ex
 panding the parameters of moral responsibility. Professor Weston will conc
 lude with a few reflections on how this might inform debates and decisions
  surrounding public health law today.\n\nRegistration\n
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LOCATION:2001 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ College Avenue\, 11th floor\, room 1140
SUMMARY:Making road safety moral – a brief history of arguing about seatbel
 ts\, helmets\, and drunk-driving in Britain
URL:/equity-ethics-policy/channels/event/making-road-s
 afety-moral-brief-history-arguing-about-seatbelts-helmets-and-drunk-drivin
 g-britain-360093
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