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Vol. 7, No. 2, January 1988
"Announcements"

CSEP BOOKS. The following books and monographs are now available through the Center at the prices indicated. Handling and shipping included. Please include payment with order. We cannot afford to bill. Make checks payable to CSEP

• Beyond Whistleblowing, 2nd Printing. $7.00.

• A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility in Engineering, Ladenson et al. 1980, outline of field and annotations still provides a useful starting point. $4.00

• Professional Responsibility for Harmful Actions, Curd and May. $7.45.

• The Moral Status of Loyalty, Baron. $6.95.

• A Critical Examination of RiskBenefit Analysis in Decisions Concerning Public Safety and Health, Sagoff. $6.95.

• Technology Assessment: A Historical Approach, Cameron and Millard. $6.95.

• Whistleblowing: Ethical and Legal Issues in Expressing Dissent, Petersen and Farrell. $6.95.

• Conflicts of Interest in Engineering, Wells, Jones and Davis. $7.95.

BOOK.

• William C. Frederick led) Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy: Empirical Studies of Business Ethics and Values, v. 9 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1987). Ten articles include report on empirical studies of moral reasoning in work-related conflicts; ethical climate in organizations; organizational factors conclusive to crime; the relation of corporate crime and codes of ethics; a comparison of the values of corporate managers, union members, and community activists; methodological issues of workvalues measurement; ethical aspects of cognitive ability tests; the relation of employee assistance programs and corporate social responsibility; and a national survey of the current status of research on business ethics and values in the United States.

• Larry May, The Morality of Groups: Collective Responsibility, Group-Based Harm, and Corporate Rights (Notre Dame University Press: Notre Dame, 1987), attacks each of the three traditional modes of understanding organizational ethics-individualism, collectivism, and holism-as it explores the logic of group morality. Looking at groups as diverse as mobs, ethnic groups, and corporations, it argues that a

CALL FOR PAPERS. Bioethics will publish rigorously argued, fulllength articles on topics such as in vitro fertilization, experimentation on embryos, genetic: engineering, limits to the use of life-prolonging medical technology, and the allocation of our finite medical resources. Like the field of bioethics itself, the journal will be interdisciplinary, with contributions from those working in philosophy, medicine and other health sciences, law, sociology, economics, public policy, education and related fields. Topics in bioethics will be approached from the vantage point of concrete ethical, legal and policy problems, or in terms of the basic ethical concepts, principles and theories used in discussions of such problems. For more information, contact journals department, Basil Blackwell, Box 1320, Murray Hill Station, NY 10156.

The Employee Responsibilities and Rights journal will publish original articles, case studies, and book reviews in management, communication, corporate social responsibility, organizational behavior, industrial and organizational psychology, education (leadership, training, administration), law, policy and planning, philosophy, ethics, industrial relations and other areas of business, humanities, and the social and behavioral sciences. International perspectives are also invited. Interdisciplinary. For more information, contact Frederick A. Zeller, Office of Applied Research and Planning, 411 Knapp Hall, West Virginia University, PO. Box 6031, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506.

Journal of Agricultural Ethics welcomes original, full-length scientific articles that are relevant to ethical issues affecting agriculture, as well as relevant philosophical papers. The journal will also publish brief discussion pieces. All manuscripts will be referreed by both a scientist and a philosopher. For more information, contact Frank Hurnik, Department of Animal & Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1.

CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS. Notre Dame University Press seeks manuscripts that provide booklength analysis of some social and moral issue involving business or economics from the perspective of social science, philosophy, economics, theology, business, political science, or public policy. For more information, contact Thomas Donaldson, General Editor: SOUNDINGS, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University of Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60626.•

We Gratefully Acknowledge

Support from the Following:

Ms. Marian Despres
Mrs. Natalie G. Heineman
Ethel V. Horton
Ms. Eleanor Ransom Swift

The Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to ethical and policy issues of the professions.

EDITOR: Michael Davis
STAFF: Rebecca Newton
EDITORIAL BOARD: Thomas Calero, Mark Frankel, Martin Malin, Vivian Weil, Michael Davis.

Opinions expressed in Perspectives on the Professions are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions or the Illinois Institute of Technology. Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. 60616.

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