The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Bioethics

Abstract

In response to various ethical and social problems at the intersection of human health and the environment, environmental bioethics has emerged as an interdisciplinary field that crosses technology, science, humanities, law, social sciences, and policy. Environmental bioethics addresses issues related to managing the impacts of environmental agents and conditions (such as pollutants, toxins, and climate) on health and the impacts of human activities related to promoting health (including the provision of health care but also agriculture and public health) on the environment. It is both theoretical—with intellectual affinity with environmental justice, social justice, and public health—and practical—with relevance for clinical activism and sustainable healthcare policy. The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Bioethics asks the question: “How can environmental bioethics address the challenges of health care in the future through practice and policy?” With 31 chapters from scholars, doctors, practitioners, and activists all over the world, this highly relevant and intellectually engaging Handbook covers a range of theoretical and applied topics in an informative and comprehensive guide to modern environmental bioethics, built upon an intellectual legacy of ecology, health, and bioethics.