Ethics for the professions /
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| Author / Creator: | Rowan, John. |
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| Imprint: | Australia ; Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomas Learning, c2003. |
| Description: | ix, 445 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4802393 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part 1. Across the Professions
- Chapter 1. Moral Theories
- Utilitarian Ethics
- Deontological Ethics
- Contractarian Ethics
- Virtue Ethics
- Feminist Ethics
- Chapter 2. Perspectives on Professional Ethics
- What Is a Profession?
- Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?
- Strong Separatism in Professional Ethics
- Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics
- The Excuses That Make Professional Ethics Irrelevant
- Chapter 3. Employee Rights
- The Moral Foundation of Employee Rights
- Employment at Will and Due Process
- Work, Privacy, and Autonomy
- Affirmative Action: The Legal and Moral Contexts
- Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex
- Chapter 4. Professional-Client Relations
- Client and Professional
- Needs, Moral Self-Consciousness, and Professional Roles
- The Role of Autonomy in Professional Ethics
- Confidentiality: A Comparison Across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering and Accounting
- My Client, My Enemy
- Part 2. Specific Professions
- Chapter 5. Business and the Professions
- A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation
- The Moral Duties of Organizations: Dual-Investor Theory and the Nature of Organizations
- Paternalism in the Marketplace: Should a Salesman Be His Buyer's Keeper?
- Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers
- Environmental Ethics and the Business Professional: Responsibilities and Opportunities
- Chapter 6. Engineering
- Ethics, Ethos, and the Professions: Some Lessons from Engineering
- Whistleblowing: Professionalism and Personal Life
- Can Engineers Hold Public Interests Paramount?
- Trade Secrets and Patents in Engineering: Ethical Issues Concerning Professional Information
- Optimization, Option Disclosure, and Problem Redefinition: Derivative Moral Obligations of Engineers and the Case of the Composite-Material Bicycle
- Chapter 7. Health Care
- Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship
- Legal and Ethical Myths About Informed Consent
- Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy or Medicalizing Suicide?
- Reassessing the Reliability of Advance Directives
- An Ethic of the Fitting: A Conceptual Framework for Nursing Practice
- A Dilemma of Caring: Ethical Analysis and Justification of the Nurse Refusing Assignment
- Health Care as a Business: The Ethic of Hippocrates Versus the Ethic of Managed Care
- Physicians and Managed Care: Employees or Professionals?
- Chapter 8. Counseling
- Client Empowerment and Counselor Integrity
- Confidentiality, Counseling, and Clients Who Have AIDS: Ethical Foundations of a Model Rule
- Nonsexual Multiple Relationships
- Lying and Deception in Counseling
- Chapter 9. Law
- The Adversary System of Justice: An Ethical Jungle
- Informing Clients About Limits to Confidentiality
- Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents: Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System
- Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?
- Chapter 10. Journalism
- The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists
- Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest
- Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage
- Privacy, Politics, and the Press
- Do Journalism Ethics and Values Apply to New Media?
- Chapter 11. Education
- Democratic Education
- Ethics in Higher Education: Red Flags and Grey Areas
- Ethics and Educator/Student Relationships
- Professors, Students, and Friendship
- Autonomy and the Very Limited Role of Advocacy in the Classroom