1st Edition
Environmental Bioethics Theory and Practice for Environmentally Sustainable Health Care
Foreword: Nature Bites Back
Trevor Stammers
Introduction – Sustainability and Bioethics: Where We Have Been, Where We Are, Where We Are Going
Cristina Richie
Part I. Ethical Theory for Environmental Bioethics
1. Does Health Promotion Harm the Environment?
Cheryl C. Macpherson, Elise Smith and Travis N. Rieder
2. Bioethics and Environmental Ethics: The Story of the Human Body as a Natural Ecosystem
Zoe-Athena Papalois and Kyriaki-Barbara Papalois
3. Restorative Commons as an Expanded Ethical Framework for Public Health and Environmental Sustainability
Robert Gurevich
Part II. Ethical Practice for Environmentally Sustainable Health Care
4.The Climate Emergency: Are the Doctors who take Non-violent Direct Action to Raise Public Awareness Radical Activists, Rightminded Professionals, or Reluctant Whistleblowers?
Terry Kemple
5. Will the Plant-Based movement Redefine Physicians’ Understanding of Chronic Disease?
Maximilian Andreas Storz
6. Going Green: Decreasing Medical Waste in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in the United States
Zelda J. Ghersin, Michael R. Flaherty, Phoebe Yager and Brian M. Cummings
Biography
Cristina Richie, PhD, is Lecturer of Ethics of Technology at the Centre for Technomoral Futures, University of Edinburgh and one of the leading global ethicists in sustainable health care. In addition to being the joint-Editor of Global Bioethics, Dr Richie is the author of two monographs and over fifty articles.
