Naomi Zack: Ethics for Disaster | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781538179659 | Ethics for Disaster | Naomi Zack | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023

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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 ...

Über den 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).

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 Spiegelman
• Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights
• The 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 worst
• 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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781538179659
ISBN-10:	1538179652
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Zack, Naomi
Auflage:	Second Edition
Hersteller:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Naomi Zack
Erscheinungsdatum:	12.05.2023
Gewicht:	0,412 kg