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Professional Virtue and Self-regulation

Publication Type: Book Chapter
Secondary Title: Ethical issues in professional life
Abstract: The author looks at virtues that should be cultivated in professional ethics education. He argues that along with paying attention to the quandaries that professionals face and the structures in which they work, attention must also...
Year: 1988

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-09-14 13:16

Meaningful work : rethinking professional ethics

Publication Type: Book
Secondary Title: Practical and professional ethics series;
Abstract: In this new study, Mike W. Martin rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals. Using examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, teaching, journalism, engineering, business, and mi...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-02-23 16:01

The Realist's Challenge in Professional Ethics: Taking Some Cues from Legal Philosophy

Authors: Wueste, Daniel E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: A strain of realism in practical and professional ethics similar to what is called legal realism in jurisprudence is identified and explained. Drawing on the work of legal philosophers Ronald Dworkin and Randy Barnett, a response to...
Year: 1999

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:43

Reclaiming the Medical Profession: The Military Profession as a Model

Authors: Whitman, Jeffrey P.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: This article examines some of the challenges facing the professional ethic and autonomy of physicians (such as the increased emphasis on patient autonomy and the rise of managed care) and draws an analogy between these challenges to...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:43

Bustlers in Business: Or, Making a Profession Out of Integrity

Authors: Stewart-Robertson, C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Kant's green-grocer lacked that quality identified as dignity. Equally problematic for professional "client" servers is integrity. What conditions attach to its fulfilment for today's doctor or coach? Adam Smith sought distinctions ...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:41

Good Works

Authors: Pritchard, Michael S.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The teaching of professional ethics often focuses on codes of ethics and ethical dilemmas. The author raises the need for professional ethics education to also focus on "good works" or instances where professionals perform an action...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:40

Personal Ideals in Professional Ethics

Authors: Martin, Mike W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: According to the consensus paradigm, professional ethics consists in the set of responsibilities developed as a consensus within a profession and incumbent on all its members. After acknowledging the large element of truth in the pa...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:38

Meaningful Work

Authors: Harris, Charles E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: In 'Meaningful Work' Mike Martin offers a perceptive critique of what he calls the "consensus paradigm" of professional ethics which reflects, he believes, deficiencies in contemporary professionalism. It is too concerned with money...
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:35

Reply to Bernard Gert's 'Morality, Moral Theory, and Applied and Professional Ethics'

Authors: Hare, R. M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: I agree with Gert about the need for an ethical theory, not too simple a theory, and an eclectic one which sees the truths in all theories but discards their errors. But there are many disputed questions in morals. Intuitions confli...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:35

New Paradigms in Professional Ethics : Feminism, Communitarianism, and Democratic Theory

Authors: Gould, Carol C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The article explores how the traditional deontological consequentialist frameworks for analyzing the ethical responsibilities of professionals are now being criticized from the standpoints of feminism, communitarianism and new democ...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:35

Professional Relations: Multiple Communities for Reform and Renewal

Authors: Covrig, Duane M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: Calls for reform by communitarians oversimplify the relational network to which professionals need to be responsive to remain ethical. This paper outlines nine relationships professionals maintain and the value or normative demands ...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:31

Towards a Concept of the Ethical Professional

Authors: Bottery, Mike
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: This article argues that part of the recent criticism of professional practice in the academic literature and increasingly in society at large stems from an inappropriate model of professional practice, which professionals themselve...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:30

Reasonable Optimism

Authors: Caldwell, Peter ; Michael, Michaelis
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author discusses how many key professions in our societies demand trust of their clients, and why there are good reasons for clients to place their trust in members of these professions. The author discusses why trusting optimis...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:31

The Construction of Professional Reality: Implications for Professional Ethics

Authors: Cooper, Wesley
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author examines the social processes that help form a profession, and what the profession means to its members and the society they serve. After examining these social processes in detail, the author explores how this constructi...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:31

What is a Profession?

Authors: Barker, Stephen F.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The article discusses the assumptions being made when we begin thinking about the area of professional ethics, assumptions that are necessarily made about the traits that make something a profession, and the overall validity these c...
Year: 1992

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:29

Needs, Moral Self-Consciousness, and Professional Roles

Authors: Alexandra, Andrew ; Miller, Seumas
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: We aim to give a unified account of the concept of a professional role, claiming that the 'telos' definitive of this role is the satisfaction of certain kinds of fundamental needs. Having explicated the concept of a fundamental need...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:28

Throwing a Bone to the Watchdog

Authors: Elliott, Carl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the issue on whether bioethicists might legitimately accept money from the bodies whose actions and policies they were commenting upon in their teaching, writing, consulting and policymaking. Why a donation to bioethicists...
Year: 2001

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:43

Common morality : deciding what to do

Authors: Gert, Bernard
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: In this book, distinguished philosopher Bernard Gert presents a clear and concise introduction to what he calls "common morality," the moral system that most thoughtful people implicitly use when making everyday, common sense moral ...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:31

Morality : its nature and justification

Authors: Gert, Bernard
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book offers the fullest and most sophisticated account of Gert's influential moral theory, a model first articulated in the classic work The Moral Rules: A New Rational Foundation for Morality, published in 1970. In this final ...
Year: 2005

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:31

Moral development in the professions : psychology and applied ethics

Authors: Narváez, Darcia ; Rest, James R.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This text reports on a number of psychological studies relevant to applied ethics for a wide variety of professions. Each chapter begins with the research base of the cognitive-developmental approached used and summarizes recent res...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 18:12

Do we Need a Special Ethics for Research?

Authors: Hansson, Sven Ove
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Science & Engineering Ethics
Abstract: Research is subject to more stringent ethical requirements than most other human activities, and a procedure that is otherwise allowed may be forbidden in research. Hence, risk-taking is more restricted in scientific research than i...
Year: 2011
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-009-9186-6

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-03-07 17:26

Do the Professions Have Their Own Morality?

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Schmaus, Warren
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Inroduces a special edition of the Perspectives on the Professions newsletter that looks at a book published by philosopher Alan Goldman in his book, "The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics" and tries to answer if members of v...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-02 13:19

Professional Ethics is a World Without Trumps

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Luban, David
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Provides a review of Alan Goldman's "The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics" and discusses whether professions are governed by special moral values and how these moral values are still connected to common moral values held by ...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-02 13:17

Why Teach Ethics?

Authors: Davis, Michael ; Gawthrop, Louis C
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: Discusses the pressure that faculty of professional schools are under to teach their students ethical decision-making, and some reasons why education in ethics is important....
Year: 1988
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v7n2%20perspective.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-02 13:15

Authority, Autonomy and Institutional Norms

Authors: Schmaus, Warren ; Goldman, Alan H.
Publication Type: Web Article
Secondary Title: Perspectives on the Professions
Abstract: This article looks at the moral authority of norms set by institutions such as professional association, especially when rules or norms require an agent to do what, from his own perspective, might appear to be wrong. Rules limiting ...
Year: 1983
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/perspective/v3n1-2%20perspective.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-05-02 13:15