Environmental Health Ethics [Paperback]

Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health.Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various policy issues, from antibiotic resistance to global climate change, and explores the ways in which human values and concerns interact with environmental protection.Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various policy issues, from antibiotic resistance to global climate change, and explores the ways in which human values and concerns interact with environmental protection.Environmental Health Ethics illuminates the conflicts between protecting the environment and promoting human health. In this study, David B. Resnik develops a method for making ethical decisions on environmental health issues. He applies this method to various issues, including pesticide use, antibiotic resistance, nutrition policy, vegetarianism, urban development, occupational safety, disaster preparedness, and global climate change. Resnik provides readers with the scientific and technical background necessary to understand these issues. He explains that environmental health controversies cannot simply be reduced to humanity versus environment and explores the ways in which human values and concerns  health, economic development, rights, and justice  interact with environmental protection.1. Introduction; 2. An overview of environmental health; 3. Ethical theory; 4. Toward an environmental health ethics; 5. Pest control; 6. Genetic engineering, food, and nutrition; 7. Pollution and waste; 8. The built environment; 9. Climate change, energy, anl#X