Dying Green – A Journey through End–of–Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable H…
Dying GreenA Journey Through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care\nAuthor(s): Christine Vatovec\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978832107, 978-1978832107\nSynopsis\nThe slow violence being inflicted on our environmentthrough everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollutionalso represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in striving to improve the health outcomes of individual patients, are we damaging human health on a global scale?\n InDying Green, award-winning educator Christine Vatovec offers an engaging study that asks us to consider the broader environmental sustainability of health c.
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