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"