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9780195139037

The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195139037

  • ISBN10:

    0195139038

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-10-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

As the state of the natural world declines, environmentally related health problems will increasingly shape the landscape of human health and disease. The confluence of several global trends - rapid population growth combined with an even more dramatic increase in natural resource consumption- drives ecological deterioration, and this in turn poses serious challenges to health. U.S. medicine and bioethics have too long ignored the relevance of these global trends to health care. This groundbreaking work is a call to attention. It brings bioethics and health care squarely into the21st century. The book shows how environmental decline relates to human health and to health care practices in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. It outlines the environmental trends that will strongly affect health, and challenges us to see the connections between ways of practicing medicine and thevery environmental problems that damage ecosystems and make people sick. In addition to philosophical analysis of the converging values of bioethics and environmental ethics, the book offers case studies as well as a number of practical suggestions for moving health care toward sustainability. Theexploration of a hypothetical Green Health Center, in particular, offers an intellectual and moral framework for talking about environmental values in health care. Engaging and challenging, this book will appeal not only to health professionals and philosophers, but to anyone concerned about how topreserve and promote both human health and the health of the natural world.

Author Biography

Andrew Jameton is Professor and Head of the Section on Humanities and Law in the Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Table of Contents

The Challenge of Sustainable Health
Linking Health and Environmental Change
Population and Consumption
Environmental Aspects of Health Care
The Green Health Center
At the Bedside
Global Ethics and Justice
New Ways of Thinking About Ethics
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