Tee L Guidotti

Health and Sustainability

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Health and Sustainability: An Introduction details how the values of sustainability can be applied to the design of health systems and the delivery of primary care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199325337
• ISBN-10: 0199325332
• Artikelnr.: 47867640

Autorenporträt

Dr. Tee L. Guidotti is a physician specializing in pulmonary medicine and in occupational and environmental medicine, trained at Johns Hopkins. He had a long academic career devoted to public health, environmental and occupational health, and the relationship between ecosystem integrity and human health, mostly at the University of Alberta (Canada) and George Washington University (USA). He is currently an international consultant working through Medical Advisory Services, a small firm with offices in Rockville, Maryland, where his work convinced him that the unifying framework for what he was doing was sustainability. In 2015, he is on leave of absence as a Fulbright Visiting Chair at the University of Ottawa, in the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword on Health
Foreword on Sustainability
Preface
Chapter 1
Health and Sustainability
Chapter 2
Ways of Knowing
Chapter 3
Catastrophic Failure
Chapter 4
Pollution and Contamination
Chapter 5
Chemical Pollution and Health
Chapter 6
Ecosystem Change and Infectious Disease
Chapter 7
Socially-Mediated Issues
Chapter 8
Ecosystem Services and Health
Chapter 9
Artificial Ecosystems
Chapter 10
Energy
Chapter 11
Culture and Rights
Chapter 12
Spirituality and Sustainability
Chapter 13
The Professionalization of Sustainability
Selected Sources
Index