Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

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.