The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate. The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so great that governments treat them as threats to national security. However, such treatment potentially increases the risk that emergency disease-control measures will be ineffective, counterproductive and/or unjust. Research on ethical issues associated with infectious disease is a relatively new and...

Explores a variety of ways of thinking ethically about drone violence Includes three Open Access chapters click on the links below to read Explores how drone violence works in different circumstances, its complexities and various effects, and ways of judging it morally 9 substantive chapters demonstrate different ways of thinking ethically about the current and future use of lethal drone technology Presents ethical assessments based on ideas within and beyond traditional Just War theory Addresses the ongoing policy concern that state use of drone violence is sometimes poorly understood and...