Principles of green bioethics : sustainability in health care /

Principles of green bioethics : sustainability in health care /

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Author / Creator:	Richie, Cristina, author.
Imprint:	East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource (245 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Bioethics. Medical care. Green movement. Environmentalism. Bioethics. Environmentalism. Green movement. Medical care.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12872818

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Other authors / contributors:	Ehrlich, Paul R., writer of foreword.
ISBN:	1609176022 9781609176020 9781611863239 1611863236
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Health care is ubiquitous in the industrialized world. Yet, every medical development, technique, and procedure impacts the environment. Green bioethics synthesizes environmental ethics and biomedical ethics, thus creating an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable health care. Notably, green bioethics addresses not the structure of environmental sustainability in health-care institutions but the sustainability of individual health-care offerings. It parallels traditional biomedical ethics by providing four principles for ethical guidance: distributive justice, resource conservation, simplicity, and ethical economics. Through these four principles, green bioethics presents a coherent framework for evaluating the sustainability of medical developments, techniques, and procedures. The future of our world may very well depend on how effectively we halt ecological destruction and conserve our resources in all areas of life. The principles of green bioethics, outlined in this book, will advance sustainability in health care.
Other form:	1-61186-323-6

Table of Contents:

Part I. Approaches to sustainability and health care
Chapter 1. Environmental bioethics
Chapter 2. Green bioethics
Part II. Principles of green bioethics
Chapter 3. Distributive justice
Chapter 4. Resource conservation
Chapter 5. Simplicity
Chapter 6. Ethical economics
Part III. Green bioethics in practice
Chapter 7. The green patient
Chapter 8. The green doctor
Chapter 9. The green health-care plan.