Environmental Bioethics

Environmental bioethics addresses the environmental impact of the health care industry and climate change health hazards as two ethical issues which impact each other. This edited volume examines the theory of environmental bioethics and offers practical examples of practices which make health care more sustainable.

Autorentext

Cristina Richie, PhD, is Lecturer of Ethics of Technology at the Centre for Technomoral Futures, University of Edinburgh and one of the leading global ethicists in sustainable health care. In addition to being the joint-Editor of Global Bioethics, Dr Richie is the author of two monographs and over fifty articles.

Inhalt

Foreword: Nature Bites Back Introduction - Sustainability and Bioethics: Where We Have Been, Where We Are, Where We Are Going Part 1. Ethical Theory for Environmental Bioethics 1. Does Health Promotion Harm the Environment? 2. Bioethics and Environmental Ethics: The Story of the Human Body as a Natural Ecosystem 3. Restorative Commons as an Expanded Ethical Framework for Public Health and Environmental Sustainability Part 2. Ethical Practice for Environmentally Sustainable Health Care 4.The Climate Emergency: Are the Doctors who take Non-violent Direct Action to Raise Public Awareness Radical Activists, Rightminded Professionals, or Reluctant Whistleblowers? 5. Will the Plant-Based movement Redefine Physicians' Understanding of Chronic Disease? 6. Going Green: Decreasing Medical Waste in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in the United States