Ethics for Disaster

Informationen zum Autor Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (R&L 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (R&L 2011), Ethics for Disaster (R&L 2009), and Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge 2002). Klappentext Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to disasters are ethical matters which reveal social inequalities. With four new chapters, the second edition reveals how lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has made disasters a ... Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements Book Introduction and Overview of parts and chapters Part I: Ethics Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best?Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man?Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art SpiegelmanPublic Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster RightsThe Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics.Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worstInnocent victims and refugees: Moral and Practical questions Conclusion: A Code of Ethics for Disaster, its Implications, and the Global Water Crisis Postscript to 2nd edition Postscript to the 1st edition Select Bibliography Index About the Author

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Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to disasters are ethical matters which reveal social inequalities. With four new chapters, the second edition reveals how lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has made disasters a ...

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Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements

Book Introduction and Overview of parts and chapters

Part I: Ethics Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best?Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man?Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art SpiegelmanPublic Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster RightsThe Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics.Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worstInnocent victims and refugees: Moral and Practical questions Conclusion: A Code of Ethics for Disaster, its Implications, and the Global Water Crisis

Postscript to 2nd edition

Postscript to the 1st edition

Select Bibliography

Index

About the Author