Environmental health ethics
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 -- J...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge u.a.
Cambridge University Press
2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 305 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781107023956 978-1-107-02395-6 9781107617896 978-1-107-61789-6 1107023955 1-107-02395-5 1107617898 1-107-61789-8 |