The Center for Sustainable Medicine


May 12, 2010

The Case for Ecological Medicine

Category: Sustainable Medicine – Didi – 6:28 pm
This excellent article first appeared on Science & Environmental Health Network, Vol. 7 No. 4.

By Ted Schettler, MD MPH

Medical advances have resulted in substantial decreases in morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world. Some of these advances come at considerable economic as well as environmental costs, and benefits are not equally distributed. Now medicine and public health struggle to address the changing patterns of disease resulting both from a rapidly (more…)

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