The Health Reframing of Climate Change and the Poverty of Narrow Bioethics

We must resist thoroughly reframing climate change as a health issue. For human health–centric ethical frameworks omit dimensions of value that we must duly consider. We need a new, an environmental, research ethic, one that we can use to more completely and impartially evaluate proposed research on...

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Published in:The Journal of law, medicine & ethics medicine & ethics, 2020-12, Vol.48 (4), p.705-717
Main Author: Ferguson, Kyle
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropocentrism
Bioethics
Climate change
Environmental ethics
Health
Human subjects
Medical ethics
Poverty
Public health
Research ethics
Values
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Summary:We must resist thoroughly reframing climate change as a health issue. For human health–centric ethical frameworks omit dimensions of value that we must duly consider. We need a new, an environmental, research ethic, one that we can use to more completely and impartially evaluate proposed research on mitigation and adaptation strategies.
ISSN:1073-1105
1748-720X
DOI:10.1177/1073110520979381