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Gaia connections : an introduction to ecology, ecoethics, and economics / Alan S. Miller.
LIBRA GF80 .M53 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Alan S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental ethics.
- Environmental policy.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 307 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1 Environmental Ethics 7
- A Context for Study and Action
- The Global Background
- International Efforts to Heal the Planet
- Ecoethics
- Case Studies in Ecoethics
- 2 Ecophilosophy 24
- Shallow, Deep, and Deepest Ecology
- Ecofeminism: Women, Men, and Nature
- Alternative Approaches to Environmental Ethics
- 3 Theories of Justice 35
- General Principles in Ethics
- Theories of Justice in the Past
- Modern Theories of Justice
- Actors in the Modern Ethical Debate
- 4 World Order Imperatives 53
- Global Poverty and Structural Adjustment
- International Debt and Underdevelopment
- The Poverty-Ecology Connection
- Rights and Just Expectations
- The Nature of Security in the Modern World
- The Peace Equation: Economic Conversion Equals Job Insurance
- New Politics and Paradigms for the Solar Age
- 5 The Moral Demand for the Biological Steady State 73
- The Pros and Cons of the Sustainability Debate
- The Two Faces of Scarcity
- Biological Ethics and Thermodynamics
- 6 Economics As if Nature Mattered 88
- Overlapping Environmental Disruptions
- Contending Economic Approaches
- Dilemmas of Political Economy
- New Economic Orders
- 7 Bioethical Limits to Scientific Inquiry 103
- The Militarization of Science
- The Limits of Science
- Science, Systems, and Nature
- 8 Genetic Engineering 118
- The History and the Science of Recombinant DNA
- Controlling Recombinant Research in the Laboratory
- From the Laboratory to the Fields
- Molecules and the Military
- Patents Pending
- Science for People or Science for Profit
- 9 Unnatural Connections: Dilemmas of Biotechnology 141
- The Human Genome Project
- Down on the Farm with the Genetic Engineers
- The Confusion over Corn
- Policy and Regulation
- Two Centuries in Reproductive System Research
- 10 Genetic Counseling 160
- Genetic Screening: The Identification of Genetic Disease
- Molecular Genetics and Medicine
- The Gene Hunt
- Prenatal Screening Programs
- Abortion Dilemmas in Genetic Diagnosis
- Fertilization in Vitro
- The Nature of Abnormality
- 11 Bioethics I: The Rights of People 180
- Health Care and Medical Allocations
- The U.S. Health Care System
- Distributive Justice
- Who Gets What?
- 12 Bioethics II: Staying in Control 193
- Informed Consent throughout History
- The Rights of Patients
- The Right to Live or Die
- 13 The Selfish Gene Reconsidered 208
- Sociobiology
- Alternative Evolutionary Theories
- Evolution and Ethics
- Toward an Evolutionary Ethic
- 14 The Social Sources of Environmental Values 224
- Person/Society Influences
- Student Reflections on Values
- 15 Ecoethics and Modern War 235
- Just War Theory Revisited
- Selective Opposition to War
- The Dilemma of Nuclear War
- Just War Options Today
- 16 All God's Creatures 251
- Moral Rights for Animals? Animal Experimentation
- Animals for Food
- All Flesh Is Grass
- 17 Perspectives on Environmental Change 264
- The Environmental Movement
- Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush-Era Environmentalism
- The Ideological Rifts
- The Global Movement of the Greens
- The Labor-Health-Environmental Connection
- "The Influence Coming into Play: The Seven of Pentacles" / Marge Piercy 283.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742531422
- 0742531430
- OCLC:
- 52165840
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