Taking Action, Saving Lives

Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health

Kristin Shrader-Frechette (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-532546-1 (ISBN)

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Pollution annually kills hundreds of thousands of people. In a brilliant, disturbing, yet readable book, Shrader-Frechette shows why this environmental epidemic continues. Campaign contributors, lobbyists, and special interests often control information by capturing media and even science itself. Yet Shrader-Frechette puts the blame - and the solution - on the shoulders of ordinary citizens. Calling for a new "democratic revolution." Arguing that justice requires us each to become he change we seek, she offers many concrete proposals for reform - many based on American Public Health Association recommendations.

Kristin Shrader-Frechette is O'Neill Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. Advisor to the United Nations and to many countries and U.S. agencies on public health, environmental justice, bioethics, and nuclear-waste management, Shrader-Frechette is the author of fifteen books and some 350 articles.

Preface
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

Reihe/Serie	Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	234 x 163 mm
Gewicht	598 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-19-532546-X / 019532546X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-532546-1 / 9780195325461
Zustand	Neuware