The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care
ISBN13: 9780195139037ISBN10: 0195139038
Hardback,
176 pages
Oct 2003,
In Stock
Price:
$45.00 (04)Description
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.Reviews
"Jessica Pierce and Andrew Jameton examine new ways of thinking about bioethics, with a sense of urgency because of current ecologic realitiesit calls moral concerns into health care decision making in fundamentally new ways." -Environmental Health Perspectives
About the Author(s)
Jessica Pierce, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder , and Andrew Jameton, Professor, Department of Preventive and Societal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center
