Health and the Global Environment
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1990
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0559-3 (ISBN)
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0559-3 (ISBN)
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Critical of many current policies and practices, this book offers new and theoretical insights into the health-environment connection and a more organic approach to both health and environmental issues, as well as a range of practical alternatives.
The health-environment connection is a two edge sword that cuts in both directions. One one edge, a cure-after-the-disease policy, which dominates the health sector, spills over into the environment sector undercutting effective environmental action - from dealing with water pollution to averting global warming. On the other edge, a foggy view of how the environment affects human health undercuts a preventive approach to health through improvement of the state of the global enviroment. This book shows how forces, such as government legislation in both the health and environmental sectors, high-tech medical practice, drug promotion, and one-at-a-time environmental regulation, operate in a manner which is detrimental to human well-being and the fate of the environment. Critical of many current policies and practices, Ross Hume Hall offers new and theoretical insights into the health-environment connection and a more organic approach to both health and environmental issues, as well as a range of practical alternatives. Health and the Global Environment is designed to appeal to both professionals and the general reader interested in health and environment.
The book is a study that merges debate over care of the public's health with that over care of the planet.
The health-environment connection is a two edge sword that cuts in both directions. One one edge, a cure-after-the-disease policy, which dominates the health sector, spills over into the environment sector undercutting effective environmental action - from dealing with water pollution to averting global warming. On the other edge, a foggy view of how the environment affects human health undercuts a preventive approach to health through improvement of the state of the global enviroment. This book shows how forces, such as government legislation in both the health and environmental sectors, high-tech medical practice, drug promotion, and one-at-a-time environmental regulation, operate in a manner which is detrimental to human well-being and the fate of the environment. Critical of many current policies and practices, Ross Hume Hall offers new and theoretical insights into the health-environment connection and a more organic approach to both health and environmental issues, as well as a range of practical alternatives. Health and the Global Environment is designed to appeal to both professionals and the general reader interested in health and environment.
The book is a study that merges debate over care of the public's health with that over care of the planet.
Part 1 Health care and attitudes towards the environmen; prevention - a case for dropping the one-cause/one-effect mode; a biomedical model of healt; reinforcing the image of the human body as a machine; the one-basket health policy; big cancer. Part 2 Environment and the preventive approach: risk assessment; ecotoxicity; government attitude toward protection of the environment; acid rain, ozone and the resiliency principle; global warming; the Great Lakes ecosystem; the new public health - a change in attitude.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.7.1990 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2-3 maps |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 465 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7456-0559-1 / 0745605591 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7456-0559-3 / 9780745605593 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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