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Planetary Ethics: Russell Train and Richard Nixon at the Creation
Author(s) -
Annas George J.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.1127
Subject(s) - bioethics , argument (complex analysis) , medical prescription , public health , medical ethics , field (mathematics) , sociology , population , law , political science , environmental ethics , gerontology , medicine , philosophy , nursing , demography , mathematics , pure mathematics
This piece offers a retrospective review of a plenary speech at the 1969 Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association by the leading environmentalist of the Nixon administration, attorney and judge Russell Train. Train's talk, titled “Prescription for a Planet,” can be seen as an early argument for uniting environmental health and public health as the two main determinants of both individual and population health and for the inclusion of these fields in the then‐new field of “bioethics.”