Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help

Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help
ISBN-10
1421427451
ISBN-13
9781421427454
Category
Medical
Pages
376
Language
English
Published
2019-05-14
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Author
Henk A.M.J. ten Have

Description

Going beyond an individualized perspective, he poses audacious questions: What does it mean that patients are poor or uninsured and cannot afford suggested medicines? How can we deal with the air and water pollution that are producing a patient's illness? How do we respond to patients complaining about the safety and quality of drinking water in their neighborhood? Touching on infectious and noncommunicable diseases, as well as food, medicine, and water, Wounded Planet transcends the limited vision of mainstream bioethics to compassionately reveal how healthcare and medicine must take a broad perspective that includes the social and environmental conditions in which individuals live.

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