Environmental health ethics
By: David B. Resnik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781107023956; 9781107617896
Subjects: Environmental Medicine; Ethics; Environmental Health; Environmental Policy; Environmental Pollution
Description: "Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various issues, including pesticide use, antibiotic resistance, nutrition policy, vegetarianism, urban development, occupational safety, disaster preparedness, and global climate change. Resnik provides readers with the scientific and technical background necessary to understand these issues. He explains that environmental health controversies cannot simply be reduced to humanity versus environment and explores the ways in which human values and concerns, health, economic development, rights, and justice interact with environmental protection"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: An overview of environmental health; title: Ethical theory; title: Toward an environmental health ethics; title: Pest control; title: Genetic engineering, food, and nutrition; title: Pollution and waste; title: The built environment; title: Climate change, energy, and population; title: Justice and environmental health; title: Environmental research involving human participants; title: Conclusion.