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
- Chapter 20 The Environment, Ethics, and Health
- Chapter 21 Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health
- Chapter 22 Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- Chapter 23 Animals, the Environment, and Global Health
- Chapter 24 Justice and Global Health: Planetary Considerations
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Chapter 23 - Animals, the Environment, and Global Health
from Section 4 - Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
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
- Chapter 20 The Environment, Ethics, and Health
- Chapter 21 Ecological Ethics, Planetary Sustainability, and Global Health
- Chapter 22 Mass Migration and Health in the Anthropocene Epoch
- Chapter 23 Animals, the Environment, and Global Health
- Chapter 24 Justice and Global Health: Planetary Considerations
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Index
- References
Summary
When people talk about global health and the ethics thereof, they almost invariably mean global human health. This is not because it is impossible to have more expansive notions of global health that include other species. Instead, it is because most people who are concerned about global health, like most of those who are concerned about local health, are either not concerned at all or are much less concerned with the health of other species. Thus, global health ethics, although expanding the reach of health ethics geographically, has not extended moral concern to other species within that global space.
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 304 - 315Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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