Ethics, Health, and Natural Resources
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will investigate some of the most interesting, important, and complex intersections of healthcare ethics and environmental ethics. Ecological factors that situate us to be healthy or ill get little attention in healthcare ethics, despite that the most important material conditions of health are those we gather from nature and must hold in common. Clean water, clean air, food, habitable climates, quiet, beauty of wild places, and even immunity, for example, are a few of the resources we steward together. The ethical landscape of commons stewardship is traversed by individuals, families, communities, corporations, and governments, yet we rarely acknowledge how critically our collective performance influences nature’s capacity to meet our needs. How well we behave as humans in the ecologies we occupy with other living things and how well we repair and structure our spaces, places, and policies to support life will dictate the duration and quality of our health over the short- and long-term.
This Special Issue seeks to explore questions such as but not necessarily limited to these:
- Which features of ethical deliberation about healthcare and the environment are most in need of transformation and why?
- How ought we go about the project of transforming public debates to generate innovation in our ethical approaches to health and ecological stewardship?
- Which ethical values are most critical for thinking powerfully about our obligations as individuals and as collectives to motivate conditions that support health?
- Which ethical values, critical frameworks, or theoretical approaches are most helpful in negotiating tension among individual well-being, community well-being, and ecological well-being?
- What are ethical value-based strategies for weighing short-term industrial and economic gains against short- and long-term consequences for health and ecology?
Prof. Dr. Sampath Parthasarathy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air quality
- biodiversity
- bioethics
- biophilia
- climate change
- communitarianism
- conservation
- conservation psychology
- ecology
- energy
- environmental ethics
- environmental health
- environmental justice
- environmental psychology
- environmental racism
- food supply
- global health
- health determinants
- health justice
- healthcare ethics
- land management
- noise pollution
- occupational health
- pollution
- population health
- public health
- solidarity
- stewardship
- water management
- water quality
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