How Could Emergency Modify our Normal Ethics Standards? A Brief Review of Selected
        Chapters in Emergency Ethics

St-Denis, Karine

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“…Such questions manifest themselves during dramatic disasters, such as when medical staff from the Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina opted for mercy killings of sick patients rather than letting these patients, who could not be evacuated, die slowly and alone (see St-Denis, 2015). Yet, similar questions also present themselves during everyday emergencies, such as traffic incidents, building fires and criminal violence.…”

Section: Moral Dilemmas In Emergency Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such moral blind spots are linked to the construction of an oversimplified moral environment. Disaster victims, for example, have been characterized as deserving of their predicament or criminal looters rather than “real victims” by those who were solely tasked with restoring order and had no responsibility for relieving their suffering (see St-Denis, 2015). Such dehumanization deprives individuals of their identity and community, so that no moral considerations are deemed to apply to their treatment (Kelman and Hamilton, 1989).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Emergency responders’ moral sensemaking: the influence of compartmentalization

Kalkman

Kramer

2022

IJES

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PurposeEmergency organizations allocate specific tasks to responders in an attempt to resolve increasingly complex incidents. Many studies take a pragmatic perspective by studying how emergency organizations can more effectively compartmentalize response tasks. Yet, the effects of compartmentalization on responders' sensemaking of moral issues (i.e. moral sensemaking) has received almost no attention.Design/methodology/approachBased on existing research, the authors bring together different insights on the relation between compartmentalization and emergency responders’ sensemaking of moral issues.FindingsThe authors demonstrate that emergency organizations may undermine the moral sensemaking of responders through introducing moral blind spots and moral dissociation or, instead, enable moral sensemaking through enhancing moral agency and awareness. The authors argue that emergency organizations need to induce moral sense-discrediting among responders to enhance their moral sensemaking. Finally, the authors conclude with discussing two types of compartmentalizing tasks, functional concentration and the holographic metaphor, to show that the latter is most likely to enhance moral sensemaking among emergency responders.Originality/valueThis study introduces moral sensemaking to the emergency management literature and investigates how organizational design influences it.

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Section: Moral Dilemmas In Emergency Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%