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.

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