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Wounded Planet - How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help (Hardcover)
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Wounded Planet - How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help (Hardcover)
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Exploring the interconnectedness of human health, biodiversity, and
bioethics. We all depend on environmental biodiversity for clean
air, safe water, adequate nutrition, effective drugs, and
protection from infectious diseases. Today's healthcare experts and
policymakers are keenly aware that biodiversity is one of the
crucial determinants of health-not only for individuals but also
for the human population of the planet. Unfortunately, rapid
globalization and ongoing environmental degradation mean that
biodiversity is rapidly deteriorating, threatening planetary health
on a mass scale. In Wounded Planet, Henk A.M.J. ten Have argues
that the ethical debate about healthcare has become too narrow and
individualized. We must, he writes, adopt a new bioethical
discourse-one that deals with issues of justice, equality,
vulnerability, human rights, and solidarity-in order to adequately
reflect the serious threat that current loss of biodiversity poses
to planetary health. Exploring modern environmental challenges in
depth, ten Have persuasively demonstrates that environmental
concerns can no longer be separated from healthcare challenges, and
thus should be included in global bioethics. 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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