Issues

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 125-127 |  PDF Abby Stoddard Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, by Leonard Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2021) In the mid-19th century, a brief and…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 111-114 |  PDF Joseph J. Amon, Nina Sun, Alexandrina Iovita, Ralf Jurgens, and Joanne Csete Over the past two decades, considerable work has been done to theorize, understand, and quantify the impact of stigma…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 1-5  |  PDF Hope R. Ferdowsian In 1946, the Constitution of the World Health Organization defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 7-11  |  PDF Himani Bhakuni Introduction Almost two decades ago, in light of mounting evidence of the extinction of various species and biodiversity hotspots, Brian Baxter, in A Theory of Ecological…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 13-20  |  PDF Mia Macdonald Abstract This essay argues that the global response to COVID-19 should lead to new thinking and action, and specifically, a new relationship with the nonhuman world that is…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 21-33  |  PDF Delcianna J. Winders and Elan Abrell Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on industrial slaughterhouses in the United States and their impacts on the vulnerable…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 35-47  |  PDF Kimberly Bernotas, Laurie Sellars, and Jeff Sebo Abstract COVID-19 is a reminder that human, nonhuman, and environmental health are linked, and so efforts to improve human, nonhuman, and…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 49-61  |  PDF Leah Utyasheva and Lovleen Bhullar Abstract Pesticide exposure and poisoning among children can lead to devastating long-lasting health effects that impact their human rights, with…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 63-73  |  PDF L. Syd M Johnson Abstract Two problems are considered here. One relates to who has moral status, and the other relates to who has moral responsibility. The criteria for mattering morally…

Volume 23/2, December 2021, pp. 81-94  |  PDF Audrey R. Chapman and A. Karim Ahmed Abstract The global community is facing an existential crisis that threatens the web of life on this planet. Climate change, in addition to being a…