Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Series: | Advancing Global Bioethics,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptualizing and assessing disasters: An introduction
- 2. Conceptualizations of disasters in philosophy
- 3. Christian theology and disasters: Where is God in all this?
- 4. Disasters and responsibility. Normative issues for law following disasters
- 5. The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters: Price gouging and post-disaster recovery
- 6. Political Science perspectives
- 7. You can't go home again - on the conceptualisation of disasters in ancient Greek tragedy
- 8. Conceptualizing Disasters from a Gender Perspective
- 10. Disaster consequentialism
- 11. Disasters, vulnerability and human rights
- 12. Capabilities, ethics and disasters
- 14. Virtue ethics and disasters
- 15. Kantian virtue ethics approaches
- 16. The loss of deontology on the road to apathy: Examples of homelessness and IVF now, with disaster to follow
- Afterword
- Bibliography of selected titles
- Index: Subject and/or Name. .