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Emergency Ethics
Edited by A.M. Viens, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
and Michael J. Selgelid, Monash University, Australia
The Library of Essays on Emergency Ethics, Law and Policy
Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive
Part III Ethical Issues in Emergency Public Policy and Law: Specifying
disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and
rights out of necessity, John Oberdiek; ‘Necessity knows no law’:
psychological well-being of its members. They raise important
on extreme cases and uncodifiable necessities, Alon Harel and
practical and theoretical questions about how we should treat each
Assaf Sharon; In extremis, Arthur Ripstein; Law, looting, and
other in times of ‘crisis’. The articles selected for this volume focus
lawlessness, Stuart P. Green; The ethics of price gouging,
on the nature and significance of emergencies, demonstrate the
Matt Zwolinski. Part IV War, Terrorism and Supreme Emergencies:
normative implications of emergencies and provide multi-disciplinary
The ethics of emergency, Michael Ignatieff; Emergency ethics,
perspectives on the ethics of emergency response.
Michael Walzer; Terrorism, morality and supreme emergency,
C.A.J. Coady; Supreme emergencies revisited, Daniel Statman;
Contents: Introduction; Part I The Nature and Significance of
Supreme emergencies without the bad guys, Per Sandin. Part V Public
Emergency: Definition of sovereignty, Carl Schmitt; Morality and
Health and Humanitarian Emergencies: Is human rights prepared?
emergency, Tom Sorell; Making sense of ‘public’ emergencies,
Risk, rights and public health emergencies, Thérèse Murphy and
François Tanguay-Renaud. Part II Ethical Issues in Emergency: Lifeboat
Noel Whitty; Ethics and global climate change, Stephen M. Gardiner;
ethics and disaster: should we blow up the fat man?, Naomi Zack;
Living on a lifeboat, Garrett Hardin; Lifeboat Earth, Onora O’Neill;
The moral black hole, Per Sandin and Misse Wester; Disappearing
Famine, affluence and morality, Peter Singer; Distribution and
without a moral trace? Rights and compensation during times of
emergency, Jennifer Rubenstein; Name index.
emergency, Simon Wigley; Deontology at the threshold,
Larry Alexander; A first order ethic of solidarity and reciprocity,
Includes 25 previously published journal articles
David Wiggins; The ethics of emergencies, Ayn Rand.
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December 2012
586 pages
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