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Health Care Without Harm: Cleaning Up Healthcare's Act

An Interview with Michael Lerner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

STEVE HEILIG
Affiliation:
San Francisco Medical Society, Bay Area Network of Ethics Committees, San Francisco, California, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Abstract

“Health Care Without Harm” is a new campaign devoted to reducing the environmental harms—namely, pollutants and unnecessary waste—generated by the healthcare industry. One of the leading local proponents of this effort is Michael Lerner, founder of Commonweal, a Bolinas, California–based research and educational institute best known for its innovative programs for cancer patients and clinicians. Lerner is author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in 1994, and the recipient of a MacArthur Prize Fellowship (the well-known “genius grant”).

Type
GLOBAL BIOETHICS
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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