Author:
Zack, Naomi, 1944-
Imprint:Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.
Descriptionxix, 143 p. ; 24 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-137) and index.
