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Disasters : core concepts and ethical theories / Dónal P. O'Mathúna, Vilius Dranseika, Bert Gordijn, editors.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: O'Mathúna, Dónal, 1961- (Editor), Dranseika, Vilius (Editor), Gordijn, Bert, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : SpringerOpen, [2018]
Series:Advancing global bioethics ; 11.
Subjects:
Disasters.
Disasters > Moral and ethical aspects.
Emergency management.
Ethics.
Geology.
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.

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