Callahan The Five Horsemen of the Modern World

Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54152-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

A leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callahan, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Mapping an Irregular Terrain
1. Our Overheating, Fraying Planet
2. Feeding a Growing Population: How, and with What Kind of Food?
3. Water: Not Everywhere and Not Always Fit to Drink
4. Chronic Illness: Rich or Poor, Few Escape
5. Obesity: The Scourge of Bad Diets and Sedentary Habits
II. Examining the Pathways Through the Thickets
6. Always More People and Ever More Elderly: Caring and Paying
7. The Technology Fix: A Way Out?
8. A Volatile Mix: Public Policy, the Media, and Public Opinion
9. Law and Governance: Managing Our Public Planet and Our Private Bodies
III. Toward the Future: Progress, Hope, and Fear
10. Progress and Its Errant Children: More Is Never Enough
11. The Necessary Coalition: Social Movements, Legislatures, and Business
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Callahan is president emeritus and cofounder of The Hastings Center, which focuses on ethical and policy issues. He has published seventeen volumes, including Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System (2009), Medicine and the Market: Equity v. Choice (2006); and What Price Better Health? Hazards of the Research Imperative (2006).