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Identifier

000467441

Title

Υγεία και περιβαλλοντική ασφάλεια : μια βιοηθική προσέγγιση / Κων/να Συγριμή.

Alternative Title

Health and environmental safety : a bioethical approach

Author

Συγριμή, Κωνσταντίνα

Thesis advisor

Τσινόρεμα Σταυρούλα

Reviewer

Κούση Μαρία
Πυρίντσος Στέργιος

Abstract

Today, thanks to the advances of modern science, technology, particularly the rapid developments in genetics and biotechnology, the capabilities of human intervention in nature have expanded to such an extent and at such great speed, that it is our responsibility that is the inhabitants, of the planet, with a further moral demand, requirement: the expansion of the scope (Tsinorema, 2017: 394) of our moral categories, so that they include concerns and issues which a while ago, interventions were not within the scope of human intervention. From an epistemological point of view, bioethics is a development of two fields of confirmative ethics, medical ethics and environmental ethics, the reflections of which it incorporates (Tsinorema, 2017: 350). In essence, the demand for environmental bioethics can be summed up in the demand for the extension of moral concern to both the non-human animals and the rest of the ecosystem in which man lives forms and shapes his life. Due to anthropogenic overuse of natural resources, climate change is a new challenge for the field of environmental bioethics, insofar as it poses a thorny issue, which raises ethical dilemmas, the answer to which is of crucial and universal importance in terms of the relationship between humans and nature, as well as in terms of the relationship between humans and each other. In this paper, I will highlight the reasons why we have moral obligations regarding the ecosystem. I will try to answer the question of what, in the end, is what connects us to the ecosystem, why we are morally obligated to display caring attitudes towards the environment and how our relationship with the environment is linked to the public welfare of health, in an effort to support the argument that we are morally, indirectly, obliged to take care of the whole ecosystem, not for its own sake, but to the satisfaction of the duty we owe both to other rational beings and to ourselves. In the light of the analysis of the 6th Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, I will attempt to highlight the magnitude of the problem of climate risk due to man-made environmental interventions, on the other hand this analysis will serve to establish a link between public health and environmental safety. The principle of rejecting systematic or useless harm to others includes the obligation to reject the undermining of the reproductive and rejuvenating powers of the natural world; as such, a catastrophe can cause systematic or useless harm to some, many or all actors (Tsinorema, 2017: 392). The reason I will procced to make such an analysis is because that I believe that the key concept of freedom is the normative bridge between rational and irrational beings, between the environment and the good of health.

Language

Greek

Subject

Climate risk

Ecosystem

Environmental bioethics

Environmental safety

Freedom

Obligation

Person

Principle of justice

Public health