EXPLORING THE VIEWS OF DISASTER RESPONDERS TOWARD A UNIFORM CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

摘要

The majority of disaster management research deals with clinical outcomes. Instead, the focushere is more narrowly on the ethics of disaster response. A proposed model of ethics thattranscends business and professional ethics so that any responder or manager of a disaster canrely upon these principles to make good, defensible moral judgment in the response to disaster istested for validity. Multiple stake-holders in the management of disasters are queried about theirbeliefs about the uniform code of professional ethics.