Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health:
Climate Change, Pollution,
and the Health of the Poor
Edited by
Philip J. Landrigan and Andrea Vicini, SJ
Copyright © 2021 by Philip J. Landrigan and Andrea Vicini, SJ
, Global Theological Ethics – Book Series
Series Editors
Jason King, St. Vincent College
M. Therese Lysaught, Loyola University Chicago
The Global Theological Ethics book series focuses on works that
feature authors from around the world, draw on resources from the
traditions of Catholic theological ethics, and attend to concrete issues
facing the world today. It advances the Journal of Moral Theology’s
mission of fostering scholarship deeply rooted in traditions of inquiry
about the moral life, engaged with contemporary issues, and exploring
the interface of Catholic moral theology philosophy, economics,
political philosophy, psychology, and more.
This series is sponsored in conjunction with the Catholic
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the need to dialogue from and beyond local cultures and to
interconnect within a world church. Its global network of scholars,
practitioners, and activists fosters cross-cultural, interdisciplinary
conversations—via conferences, symposia, and colloquia, both in-
person and virtually—about critical issues in theological ethics,
shaped by shared visions of hope.
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of Catholic theological ethicists broadly available, especially across
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Series Titles
Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health: Climate Change,
Pollution, and the Health of the Poor, edited by Philip J. Landrigan
and Andrea Vicini, SJ (2021)
,In gratitude to the Boston College community and to everyone who
is promoting global public health.
, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We express our deep gratitude to our many colleagues, at Boston
College, across the USA, and internationally, who generously shared
their passion and expertise with us in reflecting on the ethical
challenges that confront global public health in our world today and
in making this book possible.
The Boston College community – with its dedicated faculty,
students, administrators, and staff, its commitment to science, and its
foundation in social justice – provides a fertile and welcoming
environment for ethically grounded education, research, and practice
in global public health. Boston College has enabled us to build a
program in global public health that is committed to promoting the
common good, advancing justice, and caring for the Earth – our
common home – in these troubled times. For all of this, we are deeply
thankful.
This volume relies on and joins diverse academic initiatives at
Boston College that foster this ethos and that aim at training citizens
attentive to the ethical calls of global public health across the planet.
In particular, within the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and
Society, we mention the minor in Global Public Health and the
Common Good, the forthcoming major in Global Public Health and
the Common Good, the recently launched major in Human-Centered
Engineering, together with the minor in Medical Humanities, Health,
and Culture, and the Environmental Studies program.
Philip J. Landrigan and Andrea Vicini, SJ
