Ethics for Disaster

Informationen zum Autor Naomi Zack is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books are Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020, Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government, and Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics. 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 modern constant risk demanding adherence to strong moral principles. 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 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 Postscrip

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Naomi Zack, Zack Naomi
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781538179642
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7964-2
• Seiten: 250
• Serie: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Themen: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social impact of disasters, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)