TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scarry,Elaine
TI  - Thinking in an emergency
T2  - Amnesty International global ethics series
SN  - 0393078981 (hardcover)
AV  - JF256 .S33 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Co.
KW  - Abuse of administrative power
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Government policy
KW  - War and emergency powers
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The seduction to stop thinking -- Four models of emergency thinking. CPR ; Mutual aid contracts ; The Swiss shelter system ; The constitutional brake on war -- The place of habit in acts of thinking
N2  - Discusses the global ethics of increased executive power by invoking the idea of an emergency and cites philosophers, neuroscientists, and artists to prove that thinking and taking fast action are compatible
ER  -