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Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health.
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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.
Author Biography
David B. Resnik, JD, PhD, is Bioethicist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. Dr Resnik additionally holds the positions of Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University and Associate Editor of Accountability in Research. He has written eight books and numerous articles on ethical, philosophical and legal issues in science, medicine and technology. He is also Chair of the NIEHS Institutional Review Board, which oversees and reviews research projects that include human participants.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. An overview of environmental health; 3. Ethical theory; 4. Toward an environmental health ethics; 5. Pest control; 6. Genetic engineering, food, and nutrition; 7. Pollution and waste; 8. The built environment; 9. Climate change, energy, and population; 10. Justice and environmental health; 11. Environmental research involving human participants; 12. Conclusion.
Review
'Resnik has written a wonderful introduction to the field of environmental health ethics. He supplies a wealth of information about the key ethical issues in the field, as well as the science that underlies those issues. Moreover, he proposes a set of ethical principles - including both human-focused and environment-focused considerations - for addressing ethical questions related to environmental health.' Kevin C. Elliott, University of South Carolina'Environmental Health Ethics is an invaluable instructional text that provides a unique intersection between ethics and environmental health by an author who has mastery of both fields. I cannot think of a better book that applies ethics to public health and is informed by the best literature in both fields. In his exceptionally lucid analysis, Resnik applies Aristotle's 'Doctrine of the Mean' to applied ethical problems in environmental health by avoiding excess and deficiency in working out ethical dilemmas. The book covers a wide landscape of issues, opens them up to rational discourse, weighs alternative values, and leaves room for democratic process and personal autonomy.' Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University'Resnik's book is a comprehensive, eminently readable overview of one of the most important policy issues of our time. A must-read.' Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Family Endowed Professor, University of Notre Dame
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Prizes
Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2013
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"This thought-provoking book covers a wide range of environmental and health challenges, examining each from various ethical perspectives, linking one to another, and drawing cautious conclusions about what is "acceptable.".... Resnik follows, somewhat anticlimactically, with excellent chapters on environmental justice and human research, and a brief concluding chapter. This book would be valuable reading for a wide audience including environmental policy makers and those who influence them.... Highly recommended..." --M. Gochfeld, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, CHOICE
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Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various policy issues, from antibiotic resistance to global climate change, and explores the ways in which human values and concerns interact with environmental protection.
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Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various policy issues, from antibiotic resistance to global climate change, and explores the ways in which human values and concerns interact with environmental protection.
Details ISBN1107023955 Author David B. Resnik Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2012 ISBN-10 1107023955 ISBN-13 9781107023956 Format Hardcover Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 174.294 Short Title ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ETHICS Language English Media Book Publication Date 2012-06-11 Residence WY, US Birth 1962 Pages 318 UK Release Date 2012-06-11 AU Release Date 2012-06-11 NZ Release Date 2012-06-11 Illustrations 9 Tables, unspecified; 4 Halftones, unspecified; 8 Line drawings, unspecified Alternative 9781107617896 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this
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