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Bringing together work from experts across a range of sub-disciplines of environmental health, this collection of essays discusses the ethical implications of environmental health research and its application. In doing so, it builds upon the insights and ideas put forward in the first volume of
Ethics of Environmental Health.
List of contents
Part I. Perception of environmental health risks and ethics
1. Environmental health risks, moral emotions, and responsible risk communication Jessica Fahlquist and Sabine Röser
2. Discourses on environment, public health and values: The case of obesity Michiel Korthals
3. Socio-economic, historical and cultural background: implications for behavior after radiation accidents and better resilience Liudmila Liutsko, Takashi Ohba, Elisabeth Cardis, Thierry Schneider, Deborah Oughton
Part II. Philosophical approaches to environmental health ethics
4. How to bridge the gap between social acceptance and ethical acceptability: a Rawlsian approach Behnam Taebi
5. The right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress for small farmers facing pesticides hazards Leslie London
6. The politics of hypothesis: An inquiry into the ethics of scientific assessment Gaston Meskens
Part III. The role of vested Interests in environmental health research
7. Science, policy, and the transparency of values in environmental health research David Resnik
8. The role of vested interests and dominant narratives in science, risk management and risk communication Colin Soskolne
9. Tragic Failures: How the Law and Science Fail to Protect the Public Carl Cranor
Part IV. Decision Making Tools for Environmental Health
10. Ethical Tools for Decision Makers in Environment and Health Peter Schröder Bäck and Joanne Vincenten
11. Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness considerations in the assessment of environmental health risks – Ethical aspects Friedo Zölzer and Husseim Stuck
12. The need for consistency in dealing with individual sensitivity to workplace hazards Chris Kalman
About the author
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.
Summary
Bringing together work from experts across a range of sub-disciplines of environmental health, this collection of essays discusses the ethical implications of environmental health research and its application. In doing so, it builds upon the insights and ideas put forward in the first volume of Ethics of Environmental Health.
