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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 ...
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 |
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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 |