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01.12.2014 | Essays

No Better Medicine: Health in American Environmental Writing

verfasst von: Mami Aoyama, Mark J. Hudson

Erschienen in: EcoHealth | Ausgabe 4/2014

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Scientists have long noted the links between environmental change and human health, but recent years have seen a notable increase in such research. In 2009, the leading medical journal The Lancet argued that global climate change is the major health threat of the twenty-first century. In the same year, an editorial in the British Medical Journal concluded that failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will probably lead to a “global health catastrophe” (Jay and Marmot 2009). Concern with global warming has spread to allied health professions such as occupational therapy. …

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Titel: No Better Medicine: Health in American Environmental Writing
verfasst von: Mami Aoyama
Mark J. Hudson
Publikationsdatum: 01.12.2014
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: EcoHealth / Ausgabe 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1612-9202
Elektronische ISSN: 1612-9210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-014-0943-x

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