Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy: Climate Change and Health
Cheryl C. Macpherson
Mar 2016 · Public Health Ethics Analysis Book 4 · Springer
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220
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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.
About the author
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).
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