This is a pioneering work. Recent disasters such as the tsunami disaster
continue to demonstrate Professor Allinson's thesis that valuing human
lives is the core of ethical management. His unique comparison of the
ideas of the power of Fate and High Technology, his penetrating analysis
of the very concept of an "accident", demonstrate how concepts rule our
lives. His wide-ranging investigation of court cases and government
documents from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, and from
places as diverse as the USA, UK and New Zealand provide ample
supporting evidence for the universality and the power of explanation of
his thesis. Saving Human Lives will have an impact beyond measurement on
the field of management ethics.