Ethics for Disaster

Name: Ethics for Disaster
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ISBN: 9780742564954

ISBN-10: 0742564959

ISBN-13: 9780742564954

Edition: 2011

Authors: Naomi Zack

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Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.07" wide x 9.08" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction and Overview of the Chapters



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



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


Conclusion: A Code of Ethics for Disaster, Its Implications, and the Water Crisis


Postscript: Moral versus Monetary Values of Human Life


Select Bibliography


Index


About the Author