Humanities | |
Toward An Ethics of Reciprocity: Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Medicinal Plants as Cancer Therapies | |
John Charles Ryan1  | |
[1]School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, room 17.206, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, WA 6050, Australia | |
[2] E-Mail | |
关键词: ethnobotanical knowledge; medicinal plants; ethics; reciprocity; Leopold; Callicott; Gaian theory; Chinese medicine; Ayurveda; Native American etiology; | |
DOI : 10.3390/h3040624 | |
来源: mdpi | |
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【 摘 要 】
This article develops a reciprocity ethics of the environment through a discussion of ethnobotanical medicines used in the treatment of cancer. The moral virtue of reciprocity, defined as the returning of good when good is received or anticipated, is central to the posthumanist rethinking of human relationships to the plant world. As herbal medicines are used progressively more around the globe and as plant diversity decreases as a result of habitat loss and climate change, an ethics of reciprocity should be a concern for environmental philosophers and conservationists. Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and J. Baird Callicott’s distinction between deontological and prudential environmental ethics provide theoretical contexts for the development of a reciprocity ethics
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