Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Chapter 29 Global Health Research
- Chapter 30 Justice and Research in Developing Countries
- Chapter 31 The Health Impact Fund
- Chapter 32 Evaluating Global Health Impact and Increasing Access to Essential Medicines
- Chapter 33 Philanthrocapitalism and Global Health
- Chapter 34 Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
- Chapter 35 Global Health Governance for Developing Sustainability
- Chapter 36 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 37 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 38 Toward a New Common Sense
- Index
- References
Chapter 37 - Teaching Global Health Ethics
An Ecological Perspective
from Section 6 - Shaping the Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Chapter 29 Global Health Research
- Chapter 30 Justice and Research in Developing Countries
- Chapter 31 The Health Impact Fund
- Chapter 32 Evaluating Global Health Impact and Increasing Access to Essential Medicines
- Chapter 33 Philanthrocapitalism and Global Health
- Chapter 34 Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
- Chapter 35 Global Health Governance for Developing Sustainability
- Chapter 36 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 37 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 38 Toward a New Common Sense
- Index
- References
Summary
It’s not easy to talk about global health during the Anthropocene in a university classroom in the Global North. It’s confusing and upsetting to grapple with the data on rising chronic disease rates, the impact of climate change on infectious disease, the effects of toxic exposures from industry globally, and the connection between health and people’s access to land, water, and clean air to breathe. Many of the challenges have been summarized in several Lancet Commission reports (e.g., Whitmee et al., 2015). In class, discussion goes something like this: “Is it really that bad? If it is, there must be someone doing something about it. Technology will save us anyway. Moreover, how do we make sure that everyone has enough food to eat and can live healthy lives if we make changes to the system? What makes us, here in the Global North, more worthy of this good life than those in the Global South, where so many of our families come from and many remain? If we can waste less food, eat less meat, throw away less, recycle more, and find technological fixes, we shall be all right.”
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 459 - 469Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021