A Common Morality Approach to Environmental Health Ethics

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A Common Morality Approach to Environmental Health Ethics

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Environmental health comprises the study of environmental factors that affect human health, such as radiation and chemicals, and as such often addresses problems of a global nature, transcending a local or regional context. Related questions of values and norm need therefore also to be considered from a global perspective, whereas they are still mostly discussed in terms of concepts of ?Western? moral philosophy such as utilitarianism or deontology. Such a discourse is only beginning. Beauchamp and Childress in their ?Principles of Biomedical Ethics? suggest that there exists a ?common morality? which is ?not relative to cultures or individuals, because it transcends both?. They propose four cross-culturally valid principles for decision making in medicine: respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. I have argued elsewhere and will argue here that their approach can serve as a model for environmental health as well. They need to be complemented, however, with other principles some of which can be understood as corollaries or extensions of the original four, others as applications in terms of procedural ethics. These are dignity, precaution, solidarity, and sustainability on the one hand, and inclusiveness, accountability, empathy, and transparency on the other. Their relationship to the ones proposed by Beauchamp and Childress will be briefly discussed. The main question to be addressed, however, is whether the proposed principles are indeed part of a ?common morality.? This, it will be argued, cannot be decided by a global opinion poll, but has to be based on an analysis of the written and oral traditions which have provided ethical orientation throughout history and are still considered seminal by a majority of people. It turns out that there are indeed many commonalities across cultures and the concept of globally shared core values for environmental health is not hopelessly idealistic.

Název v anglickém jazyce

A Common Morality Approach to Environmental Health Ethics

Popis výsledku anglicky

Environmental health comprises the study of environmental factors that affect human health, such as radiation and chemicals, and as such often addresses problems of a global nature, transcending a local or regional context. Related questions of values and norm need therefore also to be considered from a global perspective, whereas they are still mostly discussed in terms of concepts of ?Western? moral philosophy such as utilitarianism or deontology. Such a discourse is only beginning. Beauchamp and Childress in their ?Principles of Biomedical Ethics? suggest that there exists a ?common morality? which is ?not relative to cultures or individuals, because it transcends both?. They propose four cross-culturally valid principles for decision making in medicine: respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. I have argued elsewhere and will argue here that their approach can serve as a model for environmental health as well. They need to be complemented, however, with other principles some of which can be understood as corollaries or extensions of the original four, others as applications in terms of procedural ethics. These are dignity, precaution, solidarity, and sustainability on the one hand, and inclusiveness, accountability, empathy, and transparency on the other. Their relationship to the ones proposed by Beauchamp and Childress will be briefly discussed. The main question to be addressed, however, is whether the proposed principles are indeed part of a ?common morality.? This, it will be argued, cannot be decided by a global opinion poll, but has to be based on an analysis of the written and oral traditions which have provided ethical orientation throughout history and are still considered seminal by a majority of people. It turns out that there are indeed many commonalities across cultures and the concept of globally shared core values for environmental health is not hopelessly idealistic.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

30304 - Public and environmental health

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Ethics of Environmental Health

ISBN

978-1-138-18662-0

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

51-68

Počet stran knihy

182

Název nakladatele

Routledge Earthscan

Místo vydání

Oxford

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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