Master in Food Ethics and Law

UNESCO Chair in Bioethics

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  • Bioethics and Law Observatory
  • UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • University of Barcelona
  • Faculty of Law
  • Ave. Diagonal, 684
  • 08034 Barcelona
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • obd.ub@ub.edu
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  • Master in Bioethics and Law
  • (+34) 93 403 45 46
  • master.bd@ub.edu

 

"Human Health on an Ailing Planet — Historical Perspectives on Our Future"

The New England Journal of Medicine

What can we do when the patient needing emergency care is the earth? What life support can physicians offer our ailing planet? History can help us understand and answer these pressing questions.
A deluge of recent reports document the degradation of Earth’s ecosystems.1 Local and national governments have declared climate emergencies, and it is ever harder to deny that global warming will have a dire impact on human well-being.