摘要：The complex interactions
which exist between environmental variabilities, genetic susceptibility of population subgroups, and high
individual variability for age, sex, gender, ethnicity and general status of health, acquire an ever-increasing
bioethical significance. Different risk conditions caused by toxic environmental agents and environmental
inequities and inequalities are increasingly evident. “Social determinants” of health increase the probability of
health effects and an effective intervention of prevision and prevention for environmental pathologies is
needed. The debate on environmental inequalities caused by cultural, social and economic factors and the
uncertainty about possible prevention emphasize the limits of the “bio-medical model”. Ethics with its further
anthropological and philosophical considerations may strongly help to understand the relationship between
environmental pollution and health.
