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Taking Action, Saving Lives Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health

Shrader-Frechette Kristin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780195325461
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
603 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Shrader-Frechette Kristin

Biografisk notat

Kristin Shrader-Frechette is O'Neill Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. Advisor to the United Nations and to many countries and U.S. agencies on public health, environmental justice, bioethics, and nuclear-waste management, Shrader-Frechette is the author of fifteen books and some 350 articles.

Taking Action, Saving Lives Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health

Shrader-Frechette Kristin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
Shrader-Frechette Kristin
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
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one of the most powerful academic books I have read and heard of. It is philosophically sound and coherent, but if this was all I said about it, I am not sure Shrader-Frechette would regard it as a compliment. She wants more than that. She hopes her book will inspire the readers to act. "Philosophically sound and coherent" is just not enough ... if all that is going to happen to the reader when he or she reads the book is just thinking "Oh my God, this is awful", then the reader has missed something. After reading Taking Action, Saving Lives, one should take action and save lives. Hopefully, you will not be the same person you were before reading it.

Avner de Shalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Political Studies Review

Pollution annually kills hundreds of thousands of people. In a brilliant, disturbing, yet readable book, Shrader-Frechette shows why this environmental epidemic continues. Campaign contributors, lobbyists, and special interests often control information by capturing media and even science itself. Yet Shrader-Frechette puts the blame - and the solution - on the shoulders of ordinary citizens. Calling for a new "democratic revolution." Arguing that justice requires us each to become he change we seek, she offers many concrete proposals for reform - many based on American Public Health Association recommendations.
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Preface 1: Lives at Risk 2: Orchestrating Ignorance, Ignoring Consent 3: Private Science, Public Injury 4: Human Rights and Duties not to Harm 5: Obstacles to Responsibility 6: Where We Go from Here
"One of the most powerful academic books I have read and heard of. It is philosophically sound and coherent, but if this was all I said about it, I am not sure Shrader-Frechette would regard it as a compliment. She wants more than that. She hopes her book will inspire the readers to act. "Philosophically sound and coherent" is just not enough ... if all that is going to happen to the reader when he or she reads the book is just thinking "Oh my God, this is awful", then the reader has missed something. After reading Taking Action, Saving Lives, one should take action and save lives. Hopefully, you will not be the same person you were before reading it. " --Avner de Shalit, Political Studies Review "This book is inspirational as much as it is scientific.... Highly recommended."--M. Gochfeld, CHOICE "Kristin Shrader-Frechette is a unique voice in environmental ethics. Her new book, `Taking Action, Saving Lives, is a welcome addition to her impressive list of books examining aspects of environmental policy from a richly informed philosophical perspective. This book offers an accessible primer for anyone who wants to know the kinds of things one needs to know in order to reflect on questions of environmental ethics from a perspective that elevates human health risks to the foreground."--Madison Powers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "This book is inspirational as much as it is scientific.... Highly recommended."--M. Gochfeld, CHOICE "Kristin Shrader-Frechette is a unique voice in environmental ethics. Her new book, `Taking Action, Saving Lives, is a welcome addition to her impressive list of books examining aspects of environmental policy from a richly informed philosophical perspective. This book offers an accessible primer for anyone who wants to know the kinds of things one needs to know in order to reflect on questions of environmental ethics from a perspective that elevates human health risks to the foreground."--Madison Powers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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An eye-opening account of how the government fails to fight environmental pollution, highlighting what we must do to protect our nation from a host of preventable diseases
Kristin Shrader-Frechette is O'Neill Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. Advisor to the United Nations and to many countries and U.S. agencies on public health, environmental justice, bioethics, and nuclear-waste management, Shrader-Frechette is the author of fifteen books and some 350 articles.
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An eye-opening account of how the government fails to fight environmental pollution, highlighting what we must do to protect our nation from a host of preventable diseases

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one of the most powerful academic books I have read and heard of. It is philosophically sound and coherent, but if this was all I said about it, I am not sure Shrader-Frechette would regard it as a compliment. She wants more than that. She hopes her book will inspire the readers to act. "Philosophically sound and coherent" is just not enough ... if all that is going to happen to the reader when he or she reads the book is just thinking "Oh my God, this is awful", then the reader has missed something. After reading Taking Action, Saving Lives, one should take action and save lives. Hopefully, you will not be the same person you were before reading it.

Avner de Shalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Political Studies Review

Pollution annually kills hundreds of thousands of people. In a brilliant, disturbing, yet readable book, Shrader-Frechette shows why this environmental epidemic continues. Campaign contributors, lobbyists, and special interests often control information by capturing media and even science itself. Yet Shrader-Frechette puts the blame - and the solution - on the shoulders of ordinary citizens. Calling for a new "democratic revolution." Arguing that justice requires us each to become he change we seek, she offers many concrete proposals for reform - many based on American Public Health Association recommendations.
Les mer
Preface 1: Lives at Risk 2: Orchestrating Ignorance, Ignoring Consent 3: Private Science, Public Injury 4: Human Rights and Duties not to Harm 5: Obstacles to Responsibility 6: Where We Go from Here
"One of the most powerful academic books I have read and heard of. It is philosophically sound and coherent, but if this was all I said about it, I am not sure Shrader-Frechette would regard it as a compliment. She wants more than that. She hopes her book will inspire the readers to act. "Philosophically sound and coherent" is just not enough ... if all that is going to happen to the reader when he or she reads the book is just thinking "Oh my God, this is awful", then the reader has missed something. After reading Taking Action, Saving Lives, one should take action and save lives. Hopefully, you will not be the same person you were before reading it. " --Avner de Shalit, Political Studies Review "This book is inspirational as much as it is scientific.... Highly recommended."--M. Gochfeld, CHOICE "Kristin Shrader-Frechette is a unique voice in environmental ethics. Her new book, `Taking Action, Saving Lives, is a welcome addition to her impressive list of books examining aspects of environmental policy from a richly informed philosophical perspective. This book offers an accessible primer for anyone who wants to know the kinds of things one needs to know in order to reflect on questions of environmental ethics from a perspective that elevates human health risks to the foreground."--Madison Powers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "This book is inspirational as much as it is scientific.... Highly recommended."--M. Gochfeld, CHOICE "Kristin Shrader-Frechette is a unique voice in environmental ethics. Her new book, `Taking Action, Saving Lives, is a welcome addition to her impressive list of books examining aspects of environmental policy from a richly informed philosophical perspective. This book offers an accessible primer for anyone who wants to know the kinds of things one needs to know in order to reflect on questions of environmental ethics from a perspective that elevates human health risks to the foreground."--Madison Powers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Les mer
An eye-opening account of how the government fails to fight environmental pollution, highlighting what we must do to protect our nation from a host of preventable diseases
Kristin Shrader-Frechette is O'Neill Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. Advisor to the United Nations and to many countries and U.S. agencies on public health, environmental justice, bioethics, and nuclear-waste management, Shrader-Frechette is the author of fifteen books and some 350 articles.
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An eye-opening account of how the government fails to fight environmental pollution, highlighting what we must do to protect our nation from a host of preventable diseases

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195325461
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
603 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
320

Forfatter
Shrader-Frechette Kristin

Biografisk notat

Kristin Shrader-Frechette is O'Neill Family Endowed Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Center for Environmental Justice and Children's Health. Advisor to the United Nations and to many countries and U.S. agencies on public health, environmental justice, bioethics, and nuclear-waste management, Shrader-Frechette is the author of fifteen books and some 350 articles.

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