Wounded Planet: How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health and How Bioethics Can Help

371 Pages·2019·24.854 MB·English

by  Henk A.M.J. ten Have

Wounded Planet
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Wounded Planet
How Declining Biodiversity Endangers Health
and How Bioethics Can Help
Henk A.M.J. ten Have, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University Press
Baltimore
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Names: ten Have, H., author.
Title: Wounded planet : how declining biodiversity endangers health
and how bioethics can help / Henk A.M.J. ten Have.
Description: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: | MESH: Bioethical Issues | Biodiversity | Environmental Health—
ethics | Global Health— ethics
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire
universe need not arm itself to crush him. A vapor, a drop of w ater suffices to kill him. But,
if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed
him, b ecause he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him;
the universe knows nothing of this. All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must
elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill. Let us endeavor, then, to
think well; this is the princi ple of morality.
—B laise Pascal, Pensées (1670)
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Contents
Preface xi
1. Global Bioethics and the Environment 1
Bioethics 2 | Environment 5 | Global Bioethics 7
Bioethics as Biomedical Ethics 10 | Environmental Ethics 13
Reconnecting Biomedical and Environmental Ethics 16 | Conclusion 17
2. Biodiversity 19
Biodiversity: A New Focus 20 | Environmentalism 20
Popularity of Biodiversity 23 | Biodiversity and Bioeconomics 26
From Environment to Biodiversity 27 | Values and Ethics 29
Broader Bioethics: The Need for Dif er ent Ethical Discourse 35
Conclusion 40
3. Health 44
Health and Environment 45 | Health and Biodiversity 47 | What Is New? 49
Global Health 50 | Relational Context 52 | Governance 56
Ethical Implications 58 | A Dif er ent Normative Grammar 61
The Lesson from Biodiversity and Health 68 | Relational and Inclusive Ethics 71
Conclusion 72
4. Disease 74
Bioinvasion 75 | Infectious Diseases 80 | Biosecurity 93
Noncommunicable Diseases 101 | Conclusion 108
5. Drugs 111
Gifts of Nature 113 | Traditional Medicine 118
Comprehensive Global Medicine 123 | Global In equality and Injustice 125
Global Bioethics Policies 133 | An Ethical Assessment 135
An Unfair System 142 | Conclusion 143