Harold Stoner Clark Lectures

Ecologist, author and cancer survivor Dr. Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health and an enthusiastically sought–after public speaker. Her highly acclaimed book Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue.

Known as the new Rachel Carson, Steingraber received an award from the Jenifer Altman Foundation in 1998 for “the inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate the causes of cancer.” Formerly on faculty at Cornell University, Steingraber is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College in New York.

In her morning lecture titled “Contaminated Without Consent: How Pollutants in Air, Food, and Water Violate Human Rights,” Dr. Steingraber will discuss the ongoing revolution taking place in environmental health, and the ethical and moral questions that emerge from it.

“The Precautionary Principle: Science or anti-Science?” is the subject of the afternoon lecture during which the evolving and sometimes rocky relationship between science and precaution will be illustrated through historical stories—from rabies and cholera to anti-smoking laws and mercury-contaminated tuna fish.

Admission is free. Lectures will be held at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. This is the 21st annual Harold Stoner Clark Lecture Series, endowed by the late Mr. Clark and sponsored by the Department of Philosophy.