Ethics of Environmental Health Routledge Studies in Environment and Health Series
Coordonnateurs : Zölzer Friedo, Meskens Gaston
Environmental health encompasses the assessment and control of those environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is often assumed that the assessment part is just a matter of scientific research, and the control part a matter of implementing standards which unambiguously follow from that research. But it is less commonly understood that environmental health also requires addressing questions of an ethical nature.
How can we determine the "acceptable" risk level for the general population or for certain groups? How should we deal with uneven distributions of risks and benefits? How do we communicate about risks with the stakeholders? This multidisciplinary collection brings together a number of leading researchers and scholars in order to generate discussion surrounding these key questions, and to bring the ethical implications of science and technology to the forefront of critical thought.
Providing a broad overview of the Ethics of Environmental Health, its philosophical foundations and practical applications, this book offers a significant contribution to ongoing discussions in sustainable development and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of Environmental Health, urban studies and healthcare.
Foreword
Henk ten Have, Director, Pittsburgh, USA
former Director, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, UNESCO
Part I. Insights from the Discussion of Related Topics
Global, Regional and Local Ecological Change:
Ethical Aspects for Public Health Research and PracticeColin L. Soskolne, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Environmental Ethics and Environmental PoliciesMarie Claire Cantone, Milan, Italy
Justice, Environmental Health Laws and Relations Between People
Carl Cranor, Riverside, California, USA
Part II. Principles
A Common Morality Approach to Environmental Health Ethics
Friedo Zölzer, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Bioethics, the Precautionary Principle, and Future Generations
Robin Attfield, Cardiff, UK
Recent Reflections on the Ethical Basis of the System of Radiological ProtectionChristopher Clement, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Part III. Decision Making on Environmental Health Problems
The Phenomenology of Environmental Health Risk: Vulnerability to Modern Technological Risk, Alienation, and Risk Politics
Mark Coeckelbergh, Leicester, UK
Taking Public Opinion Serious in Post-Fukushima JapanMichio Miyasaka, Niigata, Japan
Better Living (in a Complex World) - An Ethics of Care for our Modern Co-Existence
Gaston Meskens, Mol, Belgium
Part IV: Ethics of Radiological Protection
Considerations on Medical Radiation UsageJürgen Kiefer, Giessen, Germany
Social and Ethical Issues in RemediationDeborah Oughton, As, Norway
Radioactive Waste: Some Ethical Aspects of its Disposal
Christian Streffer, Essen, Germany
Conclusions and recommendations
Friedo Zölzer is Head of the Department of Radiology, Toxicology and Civil Protection at the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Gaston Meskens works part-time with the Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at the University of Ghent, Belgium and with the Science and Technology Studies group of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK-CEN, Belgium.
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Circulating Water Cooling System; Nuclear Policy Making; Environmental health ethics; Radiation Protection; Bioethics; Radiological Protection; Public Health; Tissue Weighting Factors; Public Health Ethics; Environmental Economics; International Commission On Radiological Protection; Environmental health laws; Fukushima Accident; Nuclear Waste; Biomedical Ethics; Risk governance; Fukushima Disaster; Maximin Principle; Intellectual Solidarity; Technological risk; Chemical Creations; Colin L; Soskolne; Long Term Radioactive Waste Management; Marie Claire Cantone; Health Risk Assessment; Matteo Andreozzi; Core Ethical Values; Carl Cranor; Complex Social Problems; Robin Attfield; High Level Waste; Christopher Clement; Environmental Health Risk; Jacques Lochard; Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano; Mark Coeckelbergh; TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power; Michio Miyasaka; PCVs; Gaston Meskens; Moral Patients; Jürgen Kiefer; FDNPS; Deborah H; Oughton; Precautionary Principle; Christian Streffer; Spent Nuclear Fuel