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Callahan, Daniel, (1930-)

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The five horsemen of the modern world : = climate, food, water, disease, and obesity /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The five horsemen of the modern world :/ Daniel Callahan
Reminder of title:	climate, food, water, disease, and obesity /
Author:	Callahan, Daniel,
Description:	1 online resource
[NT 15003449]:	Our overheating, fraying planet -- Feeding a growing population : how, and with what kind of food? -- Water : not everywhere and not always fit to drink -- Chronic illness : rich or poor, few escape -- Obesity : the scourge of bad diets and sedentary habits -- Always more people and ever more elderly : caring and paying - - The technology fix : a way out? -- A volatile mix : public opinion, the media, and shaping policy -- Law and governance : managing our public planet and our private bodies -- Progress and its errant children : more is never enough -- The necessary coalition : social movements, legislatures, business
Subject:	Public health - Encyclopedias. -
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002346.html
ISBN:	023154152X

The five horsemen of the modern world : = climate, food, water, disease, and obesity /
Callahan, Daniel,1930-

The five horsemen of the modern world :climate, food, water, disease, and obesity /Daniel Callahan - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index

Our overheating, fraying planet -- Feeding a growing population : how, and with what kind of food? -- Water : not everywhere and not always fit to drink -- Chronic illness : rich or poor, few escape -- Obesity : the scourge of bad diets and sedentary habits -- Always more people and ever more elderly : caring and paying - - The technology fix : a way out? -- A volatile mix : public opinion, the media, and shaping policy -- Law and governance : managing our public planet and our private bodies -- Progress and its errant children : more is never enough -- The necessary coalition : social movements, legislatures, business

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can?t we make any progress in counteracting these problems, despite vast expenditures of intellectual, institutional, and societal capital? What makes these global emergencies the "wicked problems" that resist our best efforts and only grow more daunting? Daniel Callahan, noted author and the nation?s preeminent scholar in bioethics, takes a cross- cutting look at these global problems and shines a light on the institutions, practices, and actors that block major change. We see partisan political and ideological forces, old fashioned hucksters, and trumped up scientific disagreements, but also the problem of modern progress itself

In English

ISBN: 023154152X

Standard No.: 10.7312 / call17702doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1614428
Public health
--Encyclopedias.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

959526
Electronic books

Dewey Class. No.: 362.1

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