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 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 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

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Zack, Zack Naomi
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781538179642
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-7964-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; 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)