The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care

by Jessica Pierce, Andrew Jameton, Canadan Boulder

Book Overview

As the state of the natural world declines, environmentally related health problems will increasingly shape the landscape of human health and disease. The confluence of several global trends - rapid population growth combined with an even more dramatic increase in natural resource consumption - drives ecological deterioration, and this in turn poses serious challenges to health. U.S. medicine and bioethics have too long ignored the relevance of these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195139038
• ISBN13: 9780195139037
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"