Wardrope, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-3614-6346 (2024) Thinking like a mountain: A land ethical approach to healthcare resource. Bioethics. ISSN 0269-9702
Abstract
Human activity is now having a defining influence on global systems. The Anthropocene epoch requires revisiting our ethical presuppositions to understand our relationship to the earth's life support systems. The Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold proposes an ethic that is diachronic, holistic, and biocentric, in contrast to the synchronic, individualist, and anthropocentric axioms of mainstream bioethics. I argue that these features of the Land Ethic make it more suitable to engage with the ethics of healthcare resource allocation in the Anthropocene; that understanding sustainability in a Land Ethical fashion requires that we view it as placing a side-constraint on all permissible healthcare resource use such that this use remains within planetary boundaries; and outline how this might re-shape debates around healthcare resource allocation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Bioethics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | aldo leopold; Anthropocene; climate ethics; environmental ethics; land ethic; resource allocation; sustainability |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > Department of Neuroscience (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2024 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2024 11:23 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/bioe.13355 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218074 |