Ethics in everyday places : mapping moral stress, distress, and injury

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Label

Ethics in everyday places : mapping moral stress, distress, and injury

Title remainder

mapping moral stress, distress, and injury

Statement of responsibility

Tom Koch

Creator

• Koch, Tom, 1949-

Author

• Koch, Tom, 1949-

Subject

• Ethics
• MEDICAL / Ethics
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
• TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography
• Cartography -- Miscellanea
• Ethics

Language

eng

Summary

In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, "you do everything right but know you've done something wrong." The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in modern Western society. Koch makes his argument "from the ground up," from the perspective of average persons, and through a revealing series of maps in which issues of ethics and morality are embedded. The book begins with a general grounding in both moral stress and mapping as a means of investigation. The author then examines the ethical dilemmas of mapmakers and others in the popular media and the sciences, including graphic artists, journalists, researchers, and social scientists. Koch expands from the particular to the general, from mapmaker and journalist to the readers of maps and news. He explores the moral stress and injury in educational funding, poverty, and income inequality ("Why aren't we angry that one in eight fellow citizens lives in federally certified poverty?"), transportation modeling (seen in the iconic map of the London transit system and the hidden realities of exclusion), and U.S. graft organ transplantation. This uniquely interdisciplinary work rewrites our understanding of the nature of moral stress, distress and injury, and ethics in modern life. Written accessibly and engagingly, it transforms how we think of ethics-personal and professional-amid the often conflicting moral injunctions across modern society. -- Provided by publisher

Member of

• Basic bioethics

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

BJ1012

LC item number

.K55 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Basic bioethics