Ethical Issues in Professional Life

Name: Ethical Issues in Professional Life
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ISBN: 9780195050264

ISBN-10: 0195050266

ISBN-13: 9780195050264

Edition: 1988

Authors: Joan C. Callahan

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This is an anthology of readings intended for use as a primary text in first-degree courses in professional ethics. Increasingly, universities are offering such general courses as an alternative to the proliferation of specialized courses in the ethics of particular professions, for example engineering, business, and law. As yet, however, no satisfactory text has appeared. This book is organized around issues; it raises a particular ethical question and examines it in the context of different professions. It includes essays both by philosophers and people working in the professions. The editor has supplied a wide variety of pedagogic aids, including introductions to and study of discussion…

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List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.46" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

JOAN CALLAHAN, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, is editor of Ethical Issues in Professional Life and Reproduction, Ethics, and the Law: Feminist Perspectives (forthcoming from Indiana University Press), and is co-author with James W. Knight of Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversions.




Conceptual and Foundational Issues


Basics and Background


Professions and Professionalism


Occupational and Personal Morality


Professionals and Clients: Models and Metaphors



Some Recurring Moral Problems


Deception, Informed Consent, Privacy and Confidentiality



Responsibility, Dissent, and Justice


Individual and Collective Responsibility


Social Responsibility and Professional Dissent


Social Responsibility and Justice



Sample Codes of Professional Ethics



Preparing Cases and Position Papers