Name: Toward a Healthy Planet
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Toward a Healthy Planet

Edited By: Gerard Magill, James Benedict

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This volume addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights inter-related topics from agriculture to global health and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple, overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.

This volume addresses emerging concerns and pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. The contributions gathered here highlight the inter-relation of topics and expertise…

This volume addresses emerging concerns and pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. The contributions gathered here highlight the inter-relation of topics and expertise regarding a vision for a healthy planet, agriculture and food, health and the environment, global issues, and generational perspectives. The book concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple and over-lapping challenges that require urgent attention and long-term resolution. It will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines and fields that deal with the earth’s survival and flourishing.

Gerard Magill, PhD, was appointed the Vernon F. Gallagher Chair for the Integration of Science, Theology, Philosophy, and Law at Duquesne University, USA, in 2007, where he is a tenured Professor in the Center for Global Health Ethics. He received his PhD from Edinburgh University, and has published over 70 scholarly and professional articles. He is also the author, co-author and editor of 13 books, including works in healthcare ethics and governance ethics.

James Benedict, PhD, is a Scholar-in-Residence in the Center for Global Health Ethics at Duquesne University, USA, having received his PhD degree from this institution in 2015. He has published one book (on transplantation and consent) and has co-edited two volumes. He has also published numerous study guides, and several scholarly and popular articles on ethics and religion, and served for over 30 years in parish ministry in the Church of the Brethren.

Mary Jane Angelo, Salvatore Enzo Del Brocco, Patricia DeMarco, Erin Hedglen, Michael Irwin, Sarah Louise MacMillan, Thomas McQuillan, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Peter Osuji, Augustine Wayii, Crain Benzinger, Austin Gregg, Deidra Hubay, Lauren Linsao, Robert Losiniecki, Therese Schaetze, Nicholas Schmitz, Haley Wisniewski, Gerard Magill, James Benedict