Dying Green : : A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care /

Dying Green : : A Journey through End-of-Life Medicine in Search of Sustainable Health Care / / Christine Vatovec.

The slow violence being inflicted on our environment—through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution—also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard health care practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Vatovec, Christine,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.) :; 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Focal Point: End-of- Life Medical Care
  • 2 Medical Waste
  • 3 Medical Supplies
  • 4 Pharmaceuticals
  • 5 Patients
  • 6 Conclusions and Practical Implications
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A A Note on Methods
  • Appendix B A Note on Theory
  • Appendix C Institutional Data on Materials Used at Hopewell Hospital and Baluster Hospice
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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