Bioethical Insights Into Values and Policy: Climate Change and Health

ISBN-13: 9783319261652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 220 str.

Cheryl MacPherson

Opis

This book highlights values and lifestyles that are threatened by climate change; examines socioeconomic, cultural, and geographic contexts that bear on these values and threats; identifies ethical tradeoffs in policies and individual choices that worsen climate change; and analyzes these topics in light of values, health, and the fundamental bioethical principles of respect for persons, utility, and justice. That many neglected but pressing societal problems are associated with climate change is well documented in scientific reports and peer reviewed journals of public health and other disciplines. Despite pioneering work on similar issues in environmental, climate, and feminist branches of ethics, this book is the first to expose and analyze societal values and responsibilities associated with climate change from broader perspectives of bioethics.

Spis treści

Table of Contents and Synopsis of Each Chapter.- Section 1: Climate Change is a Bioethics Problem.- C 1. Bioethics and the health impacts of climate change.- C 2. Health determinants and climate change.- C 3. The causes and impacts of climate change.- Section 2: Regional Contexts and Priorities.- C 4. The Wealthy West.- C 5. China and South East Asia.- C 6. India and Pakistan.- C 7. Africa and the Middle East.- C 8. Polar Regions and Small Island States.- Section 3: Public and Policy Dialog.- C 9. Risk Assessments and Responsibilities.- C 10. Health Governance and Policy.- C 11. Bioethics as Stakeholder. ​

O autorze

Cheryl Macpherson is Professor and Chair of Bioethics at St George’s University in Grenada where she teaches bioethics to medical and graduate students from many nations. Her research and publications center on bioethics, the environment, public health ethics, research ethics, and undertreated pain. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Windward Islands Research and Education Foundation (WINDREF) and Past President of the Bioethics Society of the English-speaking Caribbean (BSEC).

Blurb

Changes in earth’s atmosphere, oceans, soil, weather patterns, and ecosystems are well documented by countless scientific disciplines. These manifestations of climate change harm public health. Given their goals and social responsibilities, influential health organizations recognize health impacts compounded by geography, social values, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and relationships between humans and environments primarily described in feminist ethics and environmental ethics. Health impacts are relevant to, but seldom addressed in bioethics, global health, public policy, or health or environmental policy. This book is the first to describe cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence the regional significance of these impacts and frame them for bioethics and policy analyses.