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The Ecology of Health Identifying Issues and Alternatives [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Medical)
  • ISBN-10:  0803973039
  • ISBN-10:  0803973039
  • ISBN-13:  9780803973039
  • ISBN-13:  9780803973039
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Inc
  • Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Inc
  • Pages:  352
  • Pages:  352
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-1996
  • Pub Date:  01-Jun-1996
  • SKU:  0803973039-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0803973039-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 100905117
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The contributors to this innovative and wide-ranging volume reflect on the philosophical issues surrounding health and ecology. They examine the policy issues involved in health and health ecology, and explore the paths that may eventually lead to a new ecology of health.The contributors to this innovative and wide-ranging volume reflect on the philosophical issues surrounding health and ecology. They examine the policy issues involved in health and health ecology, and explore the paths that may eventually lead to a new ecology of health.Introduction
PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON HEALTH AND ECOLOGY
Biomedical Technologies and the Environment - Carl Mitcham
Rejecting Nature
Brave New Biocracy - Ivan Illich
A Critique of Health Care from Womb to Tomb
Deep Ecology from the Perspective of Ecological Science - Frank B Golley
Beastly Questions - Michael W Fox
Transgenic Animals and 'Wild' Nature - Strachan Donnelley
A Landscape of Moral Ecology
Politics, Spirituality and Environmental Healing - David J Hufford and Mariana Chilton
Birth in the Technology - Robbie E Davis-Floyd
Body Image and Worldview
The Caretakers of Suffering - Janice Morse
Aboriginal Healing and its Relevance for Non-Aboriginals - David E Young
Yoga for Health and Freedom - B K S Iyengar and F Dean Lerner
PART TWO: POLICY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH ECOLOGY
Risk, Science, and Democracy - William D Ruckleshaus
The Politics of Cancer - Robert N Proctor
Radiation - Judith Johnsrud
The Ghost in the Biosphere
A Molecular Basis for Development - David Morris
An Environmental Policy for the 1990s
Productive Technologies - Janice Raymond
The Necessity for Limits
Primary Health Care and the World Health Organizaló"
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