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

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.

About the author

Henk A.M.J. ten Have, MD, PhD (AMSTERDAM, NL) is a research professor in bioethics at Universidad Anáhuac México and professor emeritus at Duquesne University's Center for Healthcare Ethics. He is the author of Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help and the coauthor of Bioethics, Healthcare and the Soul.

Product details

• Authors: Henk A M J Ten Have, Henk A. M. J. Ten Have, Henk A.M.J. ten Have, Henk A.m.j. (Duquesne University) Ten Have
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781421427454
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2745-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Public Health, The environment, Public health & preventive medicine, Science / Environmental Science, Bio-ethics, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Public health and preventive medicine, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Medicolegal issues