This book brings together some of the leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice the book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a . This call for proposals has been issued to support both the work of the unit and phepren the public health emergency preparedness and response ethics network which is currently focuses on the covid 19 pandemic research proposals may address any significant ethical aspects of public health preparedness and response to covid 19. This chapter provides an overview and distinctive approach to disaster ethics emergency ethics and public health ethics in general it considers what kind of activity public health emergency preparedness as a whole is and asks what ethical goals should orient an activity of that kind it argues that emergency preparedness should be understood as a form of civic practice an activity . Emergency ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice the book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a comprehensive ethical conception of emergency preparedness as a distinctive form of civic practice brought about by the interrelationships and coordination