Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

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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Other Authors: O’Mathúna, Dónal P. (Editor), O’Mathúna, Dónal P. editor (editor), Dranseika, Vilius. editor, Gordijn, Bert. editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2018
Cham : 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Advancing Global Bioethics, 11
Subjects:
Ethics.
Natural disasters.
Public international law.
Natural Hazards.
Public International Law .
Philosophy
Ethics
Natural disasters
Public international law
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430466506719
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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