Environmental health ethics

by Resnik, David B.

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Title Statements

Full title :Environmental health ethics / David B. Resnik.

Summary

"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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 305 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107023956, 1107023955, 9781107617896, 1107617898
oclc:ocn939832914
Dewey Decimal:613.1

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- An overview of environmental health -- Ethical theory -- Toward an environmental health ethics -- Pest control -- Genetic engineering, food, and nutrition -- Pollution and waste -- The built environment -- Climate change, energy, and population -- Justice and environmental health -- Environmental research involving human participants -- Conclusion.

Subjects

Environmental Health -- ethics Environmental Medicine -- ethics environmental policy Environmental Pollution -- ethics Folkhälsa -- miljöaspekter Miljöpolitik -- etik och moral