The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care.
Title:
The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care.
Author:
Pierce, Jessica.
ISBN:
9780199748907
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1. The Challenge of Environmental Responsibility -- 2. Linking Health and Environmental Change -- 3. Population and Consumption -- 4. Environmental Aspects of Health Care -- 5. The Green Health Center -- 6. At the Bedside -- 7. Global Bioethics and Justice -- 8. New Ways of Thinking About Bioethics -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
This 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 the very 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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