Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks. This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk from; climate change, the natural elements of earth, air, wind, and fire; the COVID-19 and other…mehr
Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks. This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk from; climate change, the natural elements of earth, air, wind, and fire; the COVID-19 and other pandemics; and innocent victims and refugees. Now more than ever, we need good and just moral principles to guide us through the disruptive crises ahead--especially for minorities. Humanism and humanitarianism are vital. Zack combines moral philosophy, political theory, public policy, and environmental science to present new ways to think about changes in the world we all share.
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Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
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).
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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 1. Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best? 2. Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man? 3. Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics 4. The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman 5. Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights 6. The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World 7. Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics. 8. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster 9. COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst 10. 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
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 1. Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best? 2. Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man? 3. Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton Part II: Politics 4. The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman 5. Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights 6. The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World 7. Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics. 8. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster 9. COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst 10. 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
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