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Author Resnik, David B.

Title Environmental health ethics / David B. Resnik
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmental health -- Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental policy.
Environmental health -- Ethics
Pollution -- Ethics
Environmental Health -- ethics
Environmental Medicine -- ethics
Environmental Policy
Environmental Pollution -- ethics
environmental policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
Environmental health -- Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental policy
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