Does Catholic Health Care Have a Responsibility to Those Harmed by Pollution?
Publication Title
Journal of Catholic Social Thought
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2024
Keywords
oregon; psvmc; providence environmental stewardship; diversity
Abstract
Pollution results from humankind’s failure to be good stewards of creation. Guided by Catholic environmental bioethics, Catholic health care organizations have reduced their contribution to this pollution, but they also encounter its human cost. Catholic hospitals treat countless patients sickened by pollution, which most strongly impacts the poor and disenfranchised—those whom the Church expresses a preferential responsibility to care for, in part via the charity care that Catholic health care provides. The poor encounter another cost of pollution
Specialty/Research Institute
Biomedical Ethics
Specialty/Research Institute
Environmental Stewardship
DOI
10.5840/jcathsoc20242117
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