Parker, Joshua (2023) The scope of patient, healthcare professional and healthcare systems responsibilities to reduce the carbon footprint of inhalers : a response to commentaries. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49 (3). pp. 1871-88. ISSN 0306-6800
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Abstract
I am grateful for these four wide-ranging and incisive commentaries on my paper discussing the ethical issues that arise when we consider the carbon footprint of inhalers.1 As I am unable to address every point raised, instead I focus on what I take to be the common thread running through these papers. Each response has something to say regarding the scope of healthcare's responsibility to mitigate climate change. This can be explored at the intuitional or structural level, or at the individual patient and practitioner level leading to a further issue of the relationship between these perspectives.