| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 143 pages). |
| Series |
Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy |
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Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- A code of ethics for disaster, its implications, and the water crisis -- Moral versus monetary values of human life. |
| Summary |
Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters. Naomi Zack explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society. By employing the moral systems of utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics to analyze the consequences of recent natural disasters, Zack reveals the special plight of the poor, disabled, and infirm when tragedy strikes. Zack explores the political foundations of social contract theory and dignitarianism and invites readers to rethink the distinction betwe. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Emergency management -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Disasters.
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Risk assessment.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zack, Naomi, 1944- Ethics for disaster. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009 9780742564947 0742564940 (DLC) 2008052261 (OCoLC)297222580 |
| ISBN |
9780742564961 (electronic bk.) |
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0742564967 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
9786612496660 |
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