life-boat ethics

is the morality of triage which accounts for morality in cases of inequality in resource distribution.

What Scheper-Hughes describes as 'the morality of triage.' Coined by ecologist Garrett Hardin to describe inequality in resource distribution, Scheper-Hughes employs the term to discuss the seeming indifference of poor mothers to the death of their infants in Northeastern Brazil in the mid 1960s. . . . (Marvin Harris calls this passive suicide) 'LIfeboat Ethics: Mother Love and Child Death in Northeast Brazil' in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy ( ) Lancaster and Leonardo ed.

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life boat ethics