Essential Reading for Bioethicists in the Anthropocene Era

The multiple emergencies of global heating require bioethicists to embrace the dormant, comprehensive bioethics legacy of Van Rensselaer Potter, moving beyond the current narrower focus of the field on medicine and health care. We recommend readings that expand the core literature of bioethics to ad...

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Published in:The Hastings Center report 2021-07, Vol.51 (4), p.3-3
Main Authors: Churchill, Larry R., Schenck, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropocene
Bioethics
Environmental literature
global heating
Global warming
perspective
Social aspects
Study and teaching
Van Rensselaer Potter
wisdom teachings
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Summary:The multiple emergencies of global heating require bioethicists to embrace the dormant, comprehensive bioethics legacy of Van Rensselaer Potter, moving beyond the current narrower focus of the field on medicine and health care. We recommend readings that expand the core literature of bioethics to address key environmental issues. These are Jessica Pierce and Andrew Jameton’s The Ethics of Environmentally Responsible Health Care; Dale Jamieson’s Reason in a Dark Time; and David Wallace-Well’s The Uninhabitable Earth. Because efforts to mitigate climate disasters are likely to be only partially successful, we also recommend the teachings of late Roman Stoicism and core texts of Buddhism, which provide ethical wisdom likely to be needed in the multiple crises of the Anthropocene.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
DOI:10.1002/hast.1262