Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help PDF
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Wounded Planet This page intentionally left blank Wounded Planet How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help Henk A.M.J. ten Have, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore © 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2019 Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Mary land 21218-4363 www. p ress. j hu. e du Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: ten Have, H., author. Title: Wounded planet : how declining biodiversity endangers health and how bioethics can help / Henk A.M.J. ten Have. Description: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018029956 | ISBN 9781421427454 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 1421427451 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781421427461 (electronic) | ISBN 142142746X (electronic) Subjects: | MESH: Bioethical Issues | Biodiversity | Environmental Health— ethics | Global Health— ethics Classification: LCC R724 | NLM WB 60 | DDC 174.2— dc23 LC rec ord available at https:// lccn . loc . gov / 2018029956 A cata log rec ord for this book is available from the British Library. Special discounts are available for bulk purchases of this book. For more information, please contact Special Sales at 410- 516- 6936 or specialsales@press. j hu. e du. Johns Hopkins University Press uses environmentally friendly book materials, including recycled text paper that is composed of at least 30 percent post- consumer waste, whenever pos si ble. For Carien and Krijn, custodians of the future This page intentionally left blank Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of w ater suffices to kill him. But, if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, b ecause he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor, then, to think well; this is the princi ple of morality. —B laise Pascal, Pensées (1670) This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi 1. Global Bioethics and the Environment 1 Bioethics 2 | Environment 5 | Global Bioethics 7 Bioethics as Biomedical Ethics 10 | Environmental Ethics 13 Reconnecting Biomedical and Environmental Ethics 16 | Conclusion 17 2. Biodiversity 19 Biodiversity: A New Focus 20 | Environmentalism 20 Popularity of Biodiversity 23 | Biodiversity and Bioeconomics 26 From Environment to Biodiversity 27 | Values and Ethics 29 Broader Bioethics: The Need for Dif er ent Ethical Discourse 35 Conclusion 40 3. Health 44 Health and Environment 45 | Health and Biodiversity 47 | What Is New? 49 Global Health 50 | Relational Context 52 | Governance 56 Ethical Implications 58 | A Dif er ent Normative Grammar 61 The Lesson from Biodiversity and Health 68 | Relational and Inclusive Ethics 71 Conclusion 72 4. Disease 74 Bioinvasion 75 | Infectious Diseases 80 | Biosecurity 93 Noncommunicable Diseases 101 | Conclusion 108 5. Drugs 111 Gifts of Nature 113 | Traditional Medicine 118 Comprehensive Global Medicine 123 | Global In equality and Injustice 125 Global Bioethics Policies 133 | An Ethical Assessment 135 An Unfair System 142 | Conclusion 143
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