title: [The environment and health. Of the difficulty of reconciling environmental and health standards in cultural nature].
abstract: Scientific cultures, i.e. modern industrial societies, create their own environment. The expression denoting such a creation is a Kultur-Natur ('cultural nature') determined by environmental and health standards. These standards are neither natural laws nor can they be derived from nature. They are instead a part of human rationality. They also have an ethical dimension. The argument focuses on the following aspects: (scientific and technological) rationality as problem solver and problem producer, exploration of the concept of the Kultur-Natur, the status of environmental and health standards, presenting the case for the concept of rational ethics (Vernunftethik) against the concept of ecological ethics and the supplementation of a research imperative by an ethical imperative.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie der Universität Konstanz, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mittelstrass
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000639:trends*; D004782:Environmental Health / Q000592:standards*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D010686:Philosophy, Medical
vernacular_title: Umwelt und Gesundheit. Von der Schwierigkeit, sich mit Umwelt- und Gesundheitsstandards in einer Kultur-Natur zurechtzufinden.