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Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel
Dealing with Epidemics
Av Daniel Messelken, David Winkler
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports from …
Making the Military Moral
Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education
Av Don Carrick, James Connelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military. In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’ has to …
Ethics of Military Privatization
The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic …
Ethics Education for Irregular Warfare
Av Don Carrick, James Connelly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2744 kr
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Following on from Ethics Education in the Military (eds. Paul Robinson, Nigel de Lee and Don Carrick: Ashgate 2008) which surveyed and critically analyzed the existing theory and practice of educating soldiers, sailors and airmen in the ethics of 'old fashioned' warfaring, this volume considers the …
Empowering Our Military Conscience
Transforming Just War Theory and Military Moral Education
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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Responding to increasing global anxiety over the ethics education of military personnel, this volume illustrates the depth, rigour and critical acuity of Professional Military Ethics Education (PMEE) with contributions by distinguished ethical theorists. It refreshes our thinking about the axioms …
Kantian Thinking about Military Ethics
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
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Kantian-inspired approaches to ethics are a hugely important part of the philosophical landscape in the 21st century, yet the lion's share of the work done in service of these approaches has been at the theoretical level. Moreover, when we survey writing in which Kantian-inspired thinkers address …
Military Robots
Mapping the Moral Landscape
Av Jai Galliott
Häftad, 2017
895 kr
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Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are …
Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War
Häftad, 2017
690 kr
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James Hickey proceeds from the premise that throughout history, humans have demonstrated a proclivity for using violence against one another as a means to achieve an end, means enabled, in many respects, by the technologies available at the time. Advancing technology has often been a prime enabler …
When Soldiers Say No
Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military
Av Andrea Ellner, Paul Robinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
837 kr
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Traditionally few people challenged the distinction between absolute and selective conscientious objection by those being asked to carry out military duties. The former is an objection to fighting all wars - a position generally respected and accommodated by democratic states, while the latter is …
From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan
British Military Intelligence Operations, Ethics and Human Rights
Av Jon Moran
Häftad, 2017
877 kr
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Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have followed these operations; and to examine the …
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict
Theoretical and Practical Issues for the 21st Century
Av Igor Primoratz, David W. Lovell
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
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There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction between combatant and non-combatant should be respected. But what are the fundamental ethical questions about civilian immunity? Are new styles of conflict …
Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century
Av Michael L. Gross, Don Carrick
Häftad, 2016
783 kr
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As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military …
From Northern Ireland to Afghanistan
British Military Intelligence Operations, Ethics and Human Rights
Av Jon Moran
Inbunden, 2013
2520 kr
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Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates over ethics and effectiveness that have followed these operations; and to examine the …
Precision-guided Munitions and Human Suffering in War
Inbunden, 2012
2520 kr
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James Hickey proceeds from the premise that throughout history, humans have demonstrated a proclivity for using violence against one another as a means to achieve an end, means enabled, in many respects, by the technologies available at the time. Advancing technology has often been a prime enabler …
Protecting Civilians During Violent Conflict
Theoretical and Practical Issues for the 21st Century
Av Igor Primoratz, David W. Lovell
Inbunden, 2012
2520 kr
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There is almost unanimous agreement that civilians should be protected from the direct effects of violent conflict, and that the distinction between combatant and non-combatant should be respected. But what are the fundamental ethical questions about civilian immunity? Are new styles of conflict …
Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century
Av Michael L. Gross, Don Carrick
Inbunden, 2013
2533 kr
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As asymmetric ’wars among the people’ replace state-on-state wars in modern armed conflict, the growing role of military medicine and medical technology in contemporary war fighting has brought an urgent need to critically reassess the theory and practice of military medical ethics. Military …
New Wars and New Soldiers
Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
Av Paolo Tripodi, Jessica Wolfendale
Häftad, 2012
791 kr
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Bringing together contributors from philosophy, international relations, security studies, and strategic studies, New Wars and New Soldiers offers a truly interdisciplinary analysis reflective of the nature of modern warfare. This comprehensive approach allows the reader to see the broad scope of …
Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare
Achilles Goes Asymmetrical
Inbunden, 2014
2753 kr
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When it comes to thinking about war and warriors, first there was Achilles, and then the rest followed. The choice of the term warrior is an important one for this discussion. While there has been extensive discussion on what counts as military professionalism, that is what makes a soldier, sailor …
Making the Military Moral
Contemporary Challenges and Responses in Military Ethics Education
Av Don Carrick, James Connelly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2520 kr
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This book offers a critical analysis, both theoretical and practical, of ethics education in the military. In the twenty-first century, it has become increasingly important to ensure that the armed forces of Western and other democracies fight justly and behave ethically. The ‘good soldier’ has to …
When Soldiers Say No
Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military
Av Andrea Ellner, Paul Robinson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2836 kr
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Traditionally few people challenged the distinction between absolute and selective conscientious objection by those being asked to carry out military duties. The former is an objection to fighting all wars - a position generally respected and accommodated by democratic states, while the latter is …
Military Robots
Mapping the Moral Landscape
Av Jai Galliott
Inbunden, 2015
2520 kr
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Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are …
Ethics of Military Privatization
The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon
Inbunden, 2016
2520 kr
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This book explores the ethical implications of using armed contractors, taking a consequentialist approach to this multidisciplinary debate.While privatization is not a new concept for the US military, the public debate on military privatization is limited to legal, financial, and pragmatic …
Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel
Dealing with Epidemics
Av Daniel Messelken, David Winkler
Inbunden, 2017
2595 kr
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This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.Outbreaks of epidemics like Ebola trigger difficult ethical challenges for civilian and military health care personnel. This book offers theoretical reflections combined with reports from …
