Topic: Bioethics in the Anthropocene

Speaker: Andrew Jameton, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Health Promotion, University of Nebraska Medical Center

Abstract: Global change is increasingly forcing environmental and health care ethics to face each other. This meeting of disciplines is likely to clash with tragic results and to disappoint many, while at the same time it is fraught with tantalizing possibilities. The main practical consequence of interest for our discussion today is: Health care systems in developed countries must learn to respect Earth’s limits and to make a rapid transition to adaptation to climate change. At the same time, the environmental dilemmas of health care expose a couple of deep philosophical paradoxes.

The seminar is available for viewing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re1Si5460Is