Environmental health ethics /
This work illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, the author develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various issues, including pesticide use, antibiotic resistance, nutrit...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.