Ethics for disaster /

Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters. Naomi Zack explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society. By employing the moral systems of utilitarianism, deontology, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zack, Naomi, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
Colección:Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy.
Temas:
Emergency management > Moral and ethical aspects.
Disasters.
Risk assessment.
Disasters
Risk Assessment
Catastrophes.
Évaluation du risque.
disasters.
risk assessment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • The social contract : Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman
  • Public policy : Snakes on a plane, fire in the Pentagon, and disaster rights
  • The disadvantaged in disaster : Hurricane Katrina
  • A code of ethics for disaster, its implications, and the water crisis
  • Moral versus monetary values of human life.

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