Renzo Pegoraro
An important and stimulating deep study on the interaction among environmental issues, health, biodiversity, and bioethics. ten Have offers an original and urgent view.
Jan Helge Solbakk
Can bioethics help to save our wounded planet? This is the audacious question pursued in this book. A disturbing wake-up call in the wake of a rapidly deteriorating biodiversity. A plea for an action-oriented bioethics, a recipe for something beyond human survival.
Stefano Semplici
Henk ten Have's focus on biodiversity goes hand in hand with a more encompassing approach to bioethics; environmental dimensions are crucial, along with social and political challenges which go beyond domestic concerns and the focus on individual rights involved in medical practice. Bioethics is 'global' because the future of humankind is at stake.
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An important and stimulating deep study on the interaction among environmental issues, health, biodiversity, and bioethics. ten Have offers an original and urgent view.—Renzo Pegoraro, Pontificia Academia Pro Vita, coeditor of Hospital Based Bioethics
A well-researched, erudite exposition of a trajectory of millennia of human existence within nature's self-renewing systems, through a few thousand years of living symbiotically with its bountiful offerings, to now-mindless destruction of our planet by our so-called 'sapient' species. Connecting bioethics and health to biodiversity is explicated as the most urgent and vital means to future health.—Solomon Benatar, Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town, coeditor of Global Health and Global Health Ethics
Henk ten Have's focus on biodiversity goes hand in hand with a more encompassing approach to bioethics; environmental dimensions are crucial, along with social and political challenges which go beyond domestic concerns and the focus on individual rights involved in medical practice. Bioethics is 'global' because the future of humankind is at stake.—Stefano Semplici, University of Rome, author of Costituzione inclusiva: Una sfida per la democrazia
The planet is dangerously sick and only uninformed or irresponsible people do not realize it. Ten Have's timely work has the merit of facing this urgent task through the bioethical gaze, rekindling the debate about the academic origins of this area of knowledge and the historical role of Van Rensselaer Potter's legacy.—Volnei Garrafa, University of Brasília, coauthor of Empoderamento do usuário como ferramenta para inclusão na Saúde: Análise Bioética
Can bioethics help to save our wounded planet? This is the audacious question pursued in this book. A disturbing wake-up call in the wake of a rapidly deteriorating biodiversity. A plea for an action-oriented bioethics, a recipe for something beyond human survival.—Jan Helge Solbakk, University of Oslo, coeditor of The Ethics of Research Biobanking
Volnei Garrafa
The planet is dangerously sick and only uninformed or irresponsible people do not realize it. Ten Have's timely work has the merit of facing this urgent task through the bioethical gaze, rekindling the debate about the academic origins of this area of knowledge and the historical role of Van Rensselaer Potter's legacy.
Solomon Benatar
A well-researched, erudite exposition of a trajectory of millennia of human existence within nature's self-renewing systems, through a few thousand years of living symbiotically with its bountiful offerings, to now-mindless destruction of our planet by our so-called 'sapient' species. Connecting bioethics and health to biodiversity is explicated as the most urgent and vital means to future health.