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  1. Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Susceptible Subpopulations From Environmental Health Risks: Liberty, Utility, Fairness, and Accountability for Reasonableness.David B. Resnik, D. Robert MacDougall & Elise M. Smith - 2018 - American Journal of Bioethics 18 (3):29-41.
    Various U.S. laws, such as the Clean Air Act and the Food Quality Protection Act, require additional protections for susceptible subpopulations who face greater environmental health risks. The main ethical rationale for providing these protections is to ensure that environmental health risks are distributed fairly. In this article, we (1) consider how several influential theories of justice deal with issues related to the distribution of environmental health risks; (2) show that these theories often fail to provide specific guidance concerning policy (...)
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  • The libertarian nonaggression principle.Matt Zwolinski - 2016 - Social Philosophy and Policy 32 (2):62-90.
    Libertarianism is a controversial political theory. But it is often presented as a resting upon a simple, indeed commonsense, moral principle. The libertarian “Non-Aggression Principle” (NAP) prohibits aggression against the persons or property of others, and it is on this basis that the libertarian opposition to redistributive taxation, legal paternalism, and perhaps even the state itself is thought to rest. This paper critically examines the NAP and the extent to which it can provide support for libertarian political theory. It identifies (...)
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  • Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science.Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette - 2014 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    This is the first book on practical philosophy of science and how to practically evaluate scientific findings that have life-and-death consequences. Showing how to uncover scores of scientific flaws -- typically used by special interests who try to justify their deadly pollution -- this book aims to liberate the many potential victims of environmentally-induced disease and death.
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  • Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community.Loren E. Lomasky - 1987 - Oup Usa.
    This book presents the foundations of a liberal individualistic theory of rights, and explains what rights we have and do not have, why we have them, who is and who is not a holder of rights, and the place of rights within the overall structure of morality. The author argues for the moral importance of individual commitments to 'projects', and demonstrates the implications of this for a variety of problems and issues.
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  • Elbow Room for Rights.Eric Mack - 2015 - In David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne & Steven Wall (eds.), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 1. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 194–221.
    If individuals possess robust rights over their own persons and legitimately acquired possessions does any action on the part of another person that has any physical effect on the right-holder or her property to which the right-holder has not consented violate those rights? If so, it seems that almost every ordinary exercise of one’s rights—e.g., starting one’s car up in one’s own driveway, emitting some smoke while grilling in one’s own backyard—violate the rights of one’s neighbors. To avoid this conclusion (...)
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  • Non-absolute rights and libertarian taxation.Eric Mack - 2006 - Social Philosophy and Policy 23 (2):109-141.
    Rights-oriented libertarian theory asserts the existence of robust individual rights - including robust rights of property. If these property rights are absolute, then it seems that all taxation is theft. However, it also seems that, if an individual is (faultlessly) in dire straits, it is permissible for him to seize or trespass in order to escape from those straits. It does seem that in this sense property rights are non-absolute. This essay examines what contribution this non-absoluteness of rights makes to (...)
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  • (1 other version)Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community.Loren Lomasky - 1989 - Law and Philosophy 8 (2):279-285.
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  • Rights Angles.Loren E. Lomasky - 2016 - Oxford University Press USA.
    Loren Lomasky is a leading advocate of a rights-based libertarian approach to political and social issues. This volume collects fifteen of his articles that have appeared since his influential volume Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community alongside one new essay. The volume represents Lomasky's more recent efforts at constructing the underpinnings of liberal rights theory, in which he formulates a series of questions about the nature and scope of rights and rights holders.Among the questions Lomasky addresses: In what way is (...)
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  • Limits to Health Care: Fair Procedures, Democratic Deliberation, and the Legitimacy Problem for Insurers.Norman Daniels & James Sabin - 1997 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 26 (4):303-350.
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  • Doubt is Their Product.David Michaels - 2008 - Oxford University Press.
    "Doubt is our product," a cigarette executive once observed, "since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy." In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and (...)
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  • Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health.Kristin Sharon Shrader-Frechette (ed.) - 2007 - New York, US: Oup Usa.
    In this book Shrader-Frechette reveals how politicians, campaign contributors, and lobbyists--and their power over media, advertising, and public relations--have conspired to cover up environmental disease and death.
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  • (1 other version)Persons, Rights and the Moral Community.Jeffrey Paul & Loren Lomasky - 1990 - Philosophical Review 99 (3):455.
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  • Politics or scholarship?Jeffrey Friedman - 1992 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 6 (2-3):429-445.
    Environmental issues imperil the libertarian utopia of a society in which the individual is completely sovereign over his or her private domain. Taken seriously, this aspiration would lead to an environmentalism so extreme that it would preclude human life, since most human activity entails incursions against the sovereign realms of other human beings. The fallback position many libertarians have adopted?free?market environmentalism?retreats from libertarian ideals by permitting some of the physical aggression of pollution to continue. Free?market environmentalism does embody the postlibertarian (...)
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  • What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power.Kristin Shrader-Frechette - 2011 - , US: Oup Usa.
    What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change.
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  • Neurodevelopmental disorders and prenatal residential proximity to agricultural pesticides: The charge study.J. F. Shelton, E. M. Geraghty, D. J. Tancredi, L. D. Delwiche, R. J. Schmidt, B. Ritz, R. L. Hansen & I. Hertz-Picciotto - unknown
    © 2014 Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services. All rights reserved. Results: Approximately one-third of CHARGE study mothers lived, during pregnancy, within 1.5 km of an agricultural pesticide application. Proximity to organophosphates at some point during gestation was associated with a 60% increased risk for ASD, higher for thirdtrimester exposures, and second-trimester chlorpyrifos applications. Children of mothers residing near pyrethroid insecticide applications just before conception or during third trimester were at greater risk for both ASD and (...)
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