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 modern constant risk demanding adherence to strong moral principles.
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 modern constant risk demanding adherence to strong moral principles.
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Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
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).
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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 1. Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best? 2. Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man? 3. Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics 4. The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman 5. Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights 6. The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World 7. Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics. 8. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster 9. COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst 10. Innocent 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
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 1. Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best? 2. Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man? 3. Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics 4. The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman 5. Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights 6. The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World 7. Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics. 8. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster 9. COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst 10. Innocent 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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