Disasters : : Core Concepts and Ethical Theories.
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| Superior document: | Advancing Global Bioethics Series ; v.11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018. {copy}2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advancing Global Bioethics Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Conceptualizing and Assessing Disasters: An Introduction
- 1.1 Part I: Conceptualization of Disasters in Different Disciplines
- 1.2 Part II: Basic Moral Theories and Response to Disasters
- Part I: Conceptualization of Disasters in Different Disciplines
- Chapter 2: Conceptualizations of Disasters in Philosophy
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Defining Disaster
- 2.3 Disaster Conceptualizations in Philosophy
- 2.3.1 Ethics and Political Philosophy
- 2.3.2 Real and Imagined Disasters
- 2.4 Conclusion and Looking Forward
- References
- Chapter 3: Christian Theology and Disasters: Where is God in All This?
- 3.1 Religion and Disasters
- 3.2 Raising Theological Questions
- 3.3 The General Approach
- 3.4 Disasters as God's Judgment
- 3.5 Theodicy
- 3.6 Is Someone to Blame?
- 3.7 Bad Things Happen to Good People
- 3.8 Call to Action
- 3.9 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Disasters and Responsibility. Normative Issues for Law Following Disasters
- 4.1 Disasters in Law
- 4.2 Law in Disasters
- 4.3 Disasters and Legal Responsibility
- 4.3.1 Serious Losses
- 4.3.2 Complexity
- 4.3.3 Tricky Distinctions
- 4.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: The Ethical Content of the Economic Analysis of Disasters: Price Gouging and Post-Disaster Recovery
- 5.1 Concepts and Economics
- 5.2 The Problems of Price Gouging and Economic Recovery
- 5.3 Economic Analysis of Price Gouging
- 5.4 Long-Term Recovery
- References
- Chapter 6: Political Science Perspectives
- 6.1 Policy Change and Disaster
- 6.2 Myopic Voting and Disaster Preparedness
- 6.3 Disaster Management, Leadership, and Resilience
- 6.4 Future Directions
- 6.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: You Can't go Home Again: On the Conceptualization of Disasters in Ancient Greek Tragedy
- 7.1 Introduction.
- 7.2 On the Literary Form and Morality of the Ancient Greek Tragedy
- 7.3 On the Ancient Greek Tragedy as a Paradigmatic Case of Human Disaster
- 7.4 Patterns of Behavior in the Wake of War: A Typology from Ancient Greek Tragedy
- 7.5 Patterns of Behavior in the Wake of War: Distilled Representations in Greek Tragedy
- 7.5.1 First Representation: When the Home Front Becomes the Battlefront
- 7.5.2 Ancient Views and Forms of Behaviour in Modern Wars: The Ghost of Ajax
- 7.5.3 Second Representation: The Fate of Women and Their Offspring in the Wake of War
- 7.5.4 Women as War Trophies
- 7.5.5 The Fate of Children of Female War Trophies
- 7.5.6 Ancient Views and Forms of Behavior in Modern Wars: The Fate of Women and Their Offspring
- 7.6 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 8: Conceptualizing Disasters from a Gender Perspective
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 The Global Disaster of Gender?
- 8.3 Gender Studies: How Are Disasters Conceptualized?
- 8.4 Basis for Disasters
- 8.5 Contextualizing Disasters: Who's Ground Is It?
- 8.6 Disasters: Processes Not Events
- 8.7 Understanding Gender in Disaster Response: The Normativity of Humanitarian Interventions
- 8.8 Developing Vulnerability
- 8.9 Deconstructing Disasters from a Vulnerability Perspective: Inserting Intersectionality
- 8.10 Mental Health in Disasters
- Challenges in Assessing Needs from a Gender Perspective
- 8.11 Expanding Horizons: The Forming of Violence from Disasters
- 8.12 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9: Bio-ethical Considerations for Public Health in Humanitarian Action
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 What Is a Public Health Disaster?
- 9.3 What Is the Overall Objective of PHHA?
- 9.4 How Have the Baseline Health Problems Changed?
- 9.4.1 The Baseline: Global Life Expectancy Has Increased Dramatically.
- 9.4.2 Disparity Between Countries Has Narrowed, But Some Still Lag
- 9.4.3 The Causes of Death Have Also Changed over This Period
- 9.4.4 The Age Group Experiencing Most Improvement Is Children Under 5
- 9.4.5 The Demographic Transition Has Accentuated Shifts in Health
- 9.4.6 Urbanization Also Has Significant Health Implications
- 9.4.7 A New Metric: Beyond Mortality to Healthy Life Years
- 9.5 How Have Those Changes Influenced the Health Impact of Disasters?
- 9.5.1 Mortality Due to Disasters Is Now Relatively Modest
- 9.5.2 The Causes of Death in Disasters Have Followed the Epidemiologic Transition
- 9.6 How Has the Baseline Approach to Public Health Changed?
- 9.6.1 Some Milestones in Conceptualisation and Bio-ethical Standards in Public Health
- 9.7 How Has That Influenced the Approach to PHHA?
- 9.7.1 The Evidence Base: Surveillance and Assessment
- 9.7.2 Risk Reduction and Prevention
- 9.7.3 Prioritisation and Efficiency
- 9.7.4 Coordination: Health Cluster
- 9.7.5 Preparedness
- 9.7.6 Building on Local Systems and Exit Strategy
- 9.7.7 An Example of Sectoral Guidelines
- 9.8 Personal Reflections: Some Bio-ethical Challenges and Dilemmas
- References
- Part II: Moral Theories and Response to Disasters
- Chapter 10: Disaster Consequentialism
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Mohist Consequentialism
- 10.3 Consequentialism in European Antiquity
- 10.4 Machiavellianism
- 10.5 Utilitarianism
- 10.6 A Contemporary Debate: "Ultimate Harm"
- 10.7 Different Games, Different Moral Rules
- 10.8 Disaster Bioethics as Disaster Consequentialism
- References
- Chapter 11: Disasters, Vulnerability and Human Rights
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Global Ethical Frameworks
- 11.3 Vulnerability as Common Ground
- 11.4 Central Role of Vulnerability
- 11.4.1 Vulnerability and Disasters
- 11.4.2 Vulnerability and Human Rights.
- 11.5 Vulnerability as a Phenomenon of Globalization
- 11.6 Vulnerability and Disaster Bioethics
- 11.6.1 The Need for Global Bioethics
- 11.6.2 The Critical Discourse of Vulnerability
- 11.7 Human Right Framework for Disasters
- 11.8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 12: Capabilities, Ethics and Disasters
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.1.1 Sen's Work on Famine Disasters
- 12.2 Sen, the Capability Approach and Development as Freedom
- 12.3 Climate Change, Unsustainability and Disasters
- 12.4 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Disasters and Communitarianism
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 What Is Communitarianism?
- 13.2.1 Particularism and Partiality
- 13.2.2 The Communal Self
- 13.3 Political Communitarianism
- 13.4 Disasters and Communitarianism
- 13.5 Disasters and Communitarian Justice
- 13.5.1 Distributive Justice Between Communities
- 13.5.2 Disaster Interventions and Community Goods
- 13.6 Criticisms
- 13.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 14: Virtue Ethics and Disasters
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Virtue Ethics
- 14.2.1 The Virtue of Resilience
- 14.2.2 The Virtue of Humanity
- 14.3 The Current State of Virtue Ethics and Disasters
- 14.3.1 General Writings on the Connection Between Virtue Ethics and Disasters
- 14.3.2 Professional Virtues of Humanitarian Workers
- 14.3.3 Virtues of Those Suffering a Disaster
- 14.4 Towards the Future of Virtue Ethics and Disasters
- 14.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 15: Kantian Virtue Ethics Approaches
- 15.1 Ethical Theories and Disasters
- 15.2 Utilitarianism and Deontology
- 15.3 Kantian Ethics
- 15.4 Kantian Virtues and Disasters
- 15.5 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 16: The Loss of Deontology on the Road to Apathy: Examples of Homelessness and IVF Now, with Disaster to Follow
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Part 1: Homelessness and IVF Sacrifice.
- 16.3 Case 1 : How the Clochards Became the Homeless
- 16.4 Case 2 : False Autonomy. The Story of Participant P8: How Good a Mother Can I Be?
- 16.4.1 Part 2: Theoretical Moral Considerations: Deontology Behind Glass
- References
- Index.