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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

By
David Benatar
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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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 Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 304 - 315
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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