‘Green Bioethics’ explores sustainable health care and related topics
Dr. Cristina Richie
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An ECU Brody School of Medicine faculty member has published a book about the impact of individual medical techniques, procedures and developments on the environment and ideas for advancing equality and sustainability in health care.
Dr. Cristina Richie, assistant professor in Brody’s Department of Bioethics and Interdisciplinary Studies, is the author of “Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care.”
Richie will discuss the book and topics related to bioethics and sustainable health care from 2–4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 4, at 100H Self Help Center, 301 S. Evans St. in Greenville. The event is sponsored by the ECU Lifelong Learning Program.
“This book is for anyone involved in health care who is interested in sustainability, from patient to provider,” she said.
The field of green bioethics blends biomedical ethics with environmental ethics to create an interdisciplinary approach to sustainable health care. In her book, Richie evaluates the sustainability of individual medical developments, techniques and procedures based on four principles of traditional biomedical ethics: distributive justice, resource conservation, simplicity and ethical economics.
“Principles of Green Bioethics: Sustainability in Health Care” is Dr. Cristina Richie’s first book.
Richie explores ideas such as how providing basic medical resources before special-interest access – and emphasizing health care needs over health care wants (think lifesaving surgical procedures vs. cosmetic surgery) – could improve the medical resource landscape. She also addresses how an enormous amount of medical resources could be conserved with a shift from treatment to prevention.
“Green Bioethics” is published by Michigan State University Press and is available at Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble.com and MSU Press.
For more information or to register for Richie’s presentation, click here.
-by Spaine Stephens, University Communications