Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.57.1.1
(Bio) ethical-medical thematization of One Health paradigm. Challenges and perspectives in the age of general ecological and health crisis
Odilon-Gbènoukpo Singbo
orcid.org/0000-0002-2154-8935
; Croatian Catholic University, Zagreb, Croatia
Terezija Gložinić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-756X
; Croatian Catholic University, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Ecological crisis which is affecting the whole world has been further exacerbated by the health crisis caused by Covid-19. In this double crisis it is difficult to separate one crisis from another. Awareness of the connections between seemingly different crises, but also awareness of connection between all being on earth, has been recognized in 19th century with attemps to find joint responses of different scientific disciplines. These attemps later have been called One Health. That is the paradigm that seeks to expose the interaction between human, animals and plants and their impact on each other. This article provides insight into the key features of this paradigm, and with the help of the biblical theology of creation and the encyclical of Pope Francis Laudato sì, expands visions of One Health to the field of theological-bioethical thinking with the purpose of a more comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to common health in the common home.
Keywords
One Health paradigm; COVID-19; theology of creation; integral ecology; medicine; bioethics
Hrčak ID:
276045
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Publication date:
19.5.2022.
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