Project summary

As evidence on the dependence of human health on a healthy environment increases, it becomes necessary to specify and justify ethical values, potential ethical conflicts and dilemmas, and the different responsibilities at the individual, institutional and population level towards sustainable and healthy living conditions. Health inequalities need to be identified and assessed in how far these amount to health inequities, in particular regarding increasing and perpetuated vulnerabilities, burdening already disadvantaged groups disproportionately. This project works towards a mapping and preliminary assessment of the main ethics and justice issues in relation to environmental health and develops a larger funding application on the multiple dimensions of ethics and justice in relation to healthy environments.

Applicants

• Dr. Cristian Timmermann, Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty
• Prof. Dr. Kerstin Schlögl-Flierl, Moral Theology, Catholic Theological Faculty
• Prof. Dr. Verina Wild, Institute of Ethics and History of Health in Society, Medical Faculty

University of Augsburg, Germany

Collaboration in the project

Cristian Timmermann, Katharina Wabnitz

Programm zur Förderung der Einwerbung hochkarätiger Drittmittel, Universität Augsburg

Project-related publications

• Timmermann, C., Wabnitz, K., & Wild, V. (2022). Responding to the climate crisis–bridging the gap between public health ethics and environmental ethics. Public Health Forum, 30 (1), 37-40.  https://doi.org/10.1515/pubhef-2021-0141
• Wabnitz, K., & Wild, V. (2023). Ärztliches Ethos im Anthropozän: Einführende Überlegungen. In C. C. Nikendei, T. J. Bugaj, A. Cranz, A. Herrmann, J. Tabatabai, & F. Nikendei (Eds.), Heidelberger Standards der Klimamedizin (pp. 191-198). Heidelberg: HeiCuMed.
• Timmermann, C., & Wild, V. (2024). Sustainability transitions in university hospitals: Contextualising research incentives and ethical responsibilities. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 33(4), 351-356.  https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.33.4.5
• Wild, V., & Wabnitz, K. (2024). Ärztliches Handeln in Zeiten der Klima- und Umweltkrisen: Anpassung des Internationalen Medizinethikkodex (ICoME) des Weltärztebundes. Bayerisches Ärzteblatt, 2024(4), 152-154
• Timmermann, C., Wabnitz, K., & Wild, V. (2024). Ethical approaches at the intersection of climate change, the environment and health. London: Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
• Timmermann, C. & Wild, V. (i.E.). The Place of Justice and Vulnerability in Climate Resilience. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 18(1).  https://doi.org/10.3138/ijfab-2024-0023