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Taking action, saving lives : our duties to protect environmental and public health / Kristin Shrader-Frechette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shrader-Frechette, K. S. (Kristin Sharon), author.
- Series:
- Environmental ethics and science policy.
- Environmental ethics and science policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental health--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Environmental health.
- Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Public health.
- Social change.
- Environmental Health--ethics.
- Environmental Exposure--prevention & control.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Social Change.
- Medical Subjects:
- Environmental Health--ethics.
- Environmental Exposure--prevention & control.
- Public Health--ethics.
- Social Change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages)
- Other Title:
- Our duties to protect environmental and public health
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing that environmental change and justice requires us each to become the change we seek, Shrader-Frechette offers many concrete proposals for reform, many of which are based on American Public Health Association recommendations.
- Contents:
- 1. Lives at risk
- 2. Orchestrating ignorance, ignoring consent
- 3. Private science, public injury
- 4. Human rights and duties not to harm
- 5. Obstacles to responsibility
- 6. Where we go from here
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-804363-5
- OCLC:
- 1336406338
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