Ethics for disaster

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Ethics for disaster

Naomi Zack

(Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy / general editor, James P. Sterba)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 in disaster : Hurricane Katrina
  • A code of ethics for disaster, its implications, and the water crisis
  • Moral versus monetary values of human life

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