How Medicine Becomes Trash: Healthcare Waste as Environmental Crisis
Student Union (STU), 101 3601 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesJeremy Greene, MD, PhD, William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and History of Medicine; Director, Institute of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, John Hopkins University The modern medical enterprise is distinctively wasteful. This may seem to result inevitably from the hazardous nature of medical substances, whose infection risk,...