Ethics for disaster /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
[2009]
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| Series: | Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy.
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Table of 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 in disaster : Hurricane Katrina
- A code of ethics for disaster, its implications, and the water crisis
- Moral versus monetary values of human life.