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As the state of the natural world declines, environmentally related health problems will increasingly shape the landscape of human health and disease. The confluence of several global trends - rapid population growth combined with an even more dramatic increase in natural resource consumption - driv...

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Main Author: Pierce. Jessica
Other Authors: Jessica Pierce; Andrew Jameton
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:As the state of the natural world declines, environmentally related health problems will increasingly shape the landscape of human health and disease. The confluence of several global trends - rapid population growth combined with an even more dramatic increase in natural resource consumption - drives ecological deterioration, and this in turn poses serious challenges to health. U.S. medicine and bioethics have too long ignored the relevance of these global trends to health care. This groundbreaking work is a call to attention...
Physical Description:149 p.
24 cm
ISBN:0195139038
9780195139037