Environmental Health Ethics

Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health.

David B. Resnik (Author)

9781107617896, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 18 June 2012

318 pages, 12 b/w illus. 9 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.43 kg

'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

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Bio-ethics [PSAD], Public health & preventive medicine [MBN], Public health & safety law [LNTJ], Health economics [KCQ], Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]