Ethics of Environmental Health (Routledge Studies in Environment and Health) - Softcover

Buch 2 von 10: Routledge Studies in Environment and Health
 
9780367152260: Ethics of Environmental Health (Routledge Studies in Environment and Health)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367152266 ISBN 13: 9780367152260
Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is often assumed that the assessment part is just a matter of scientific research, and the control part a matter of implementing standards which unambiguously follow from that research. But it is less commonly understood that environmental health also requires addressing questions of an ethical nature.

How can we determine the "acceptable" risk level for the general population or for certain groups? How should we deal with uneven distributions of risks and benefits? How do we communicate about risks with the stakeholders? This multidisciplinary collection brings together a number of leading researchers and scholars in order to generate discussion surrounding these key questions, and to bring the ethical implications of science and technology to the forefront of critical thought.

Providing a broad overview of the Ethics of Environmental Health, its philosophical foundations and practical applications, this book offers a significant contribution to ongoing discussions in sustainable development and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of Environmental Health, urban studies and healthcare.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Friedo Zölzer is Head of the Department of Radiology, Toxicology and Civil Protection at the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Gaston Meskens works part-time with the Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Ghent, Belgium and with the Science and Technology Studies group of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK-CEN, Belgium.

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0367152266
ISBN 13 
9780367152260
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
196
Herausgeber
Zölzer Friedo, Meskens Gaston
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