Research Ethics for Environmental Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Zölzer, Friedo; Meskens, Gaston

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ethical basis of environmental health research and related aspects of risk assessment and control. Coming from multiple disciplines and nine different countries, the contributors to this book critically examine a diverse range of ethical concerns in modern environmental health research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000516395
• Artikelnr.: 62903266

Autorenporträt

Friedo Zölzer is professor of environmental sciences at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. His main professional interests are radiological protection and environmental health, as well as related questions of ethics. Gaston Meskens is a scientist, philosopher and artist. He works part-time with the Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the University of Ghent, Belgium, and with the Science and Technology Studies group of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK¿CEN.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Gaston Meskens, Friedo Zölzer; Part 1: Environmental health
ethics in general; 1. Environmental health in a global context, Susana
Paixao; 2. Values and ethics as upstream determinants of population health:
The Earth Charter at the local level, Colin L. Soskolne; 3. Cosmopolitanism
and environmental health, Gaston Meskens; Part 2: Ethical challenges in
toxicological research; 4. Toward a medico-legal convergence to ethically
protect the public's health, Carl F. Cranor; 5. Connecting the dots:
toxicological decision-making and communication in the 21st century, Steven
G. Gilbert; 6. Developing teaching material in ethics for chemistry and
chemistry engineering students, Tom Børsen; Part 3: Ethical challenges in
radiation research; 7. The ethics of the co-expertise process in the
post-nuclear accident context, Jacques Lochard; 8. Citizen participation in
post-accidental recovery: Radiation doses and welfare measurements,
Liudmila Liutsko, Elisabeth Cardis and Deborah Oughton; 9. A new horizon in
health research ethics: A view from the perspective of radiological
protection, Chieko Kurihara; Part 4: Research ethics for environmental
health; 10. Roles for ethical and social values in environmental health
research, Kevin Elliott; 11. The flow of values in environmental risk
assessments, Per Wikman-Svahn 12. Principles of research ethics for
environmental health - historical development and current trends, Friedo
Zölzer