Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Practical and Professional Ethics Series)

✍ Scribed by Michael Davis, Andrew Stark

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The notion of conflict of interest is more relevant today than ever. Ethical sensitivities about the relationship between professionals and those they serve is a source of constant debate. This book sets a new standard for work on this perennial topic, collecting a set of practical essays by top applied ethicists on a wide variety of professions and occupations. Some conflicts of interest arise because a profession takes on many roles while serving one goal; others take on one role but serve multiple goals. Some conflicts are internal to the profession; others (such as family or business connections) are external. The essays in this volume address such diverse conflicts in a comprehensive way, in an attempt to make useful comparisons across professions. Containing fifteen original chapters by noted scholars of applied ethics, this volume systematically explores professions including law, medicine, journalism, engineering, financial services, anthropology, film, physical therapy, and literary criticism. An introductory chapter surveys and contextualizes work on the topic, while the concluding chapter offers us a new way to compare conflicts of interest across professions and occupations. Conflict of Interest in the Professions will be of great practical interest to scholars of applied ethics and law, as well as to professionals in the fields discussed

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
I: LAW AND GOVERNMENT......Page 30
1. Law's Blindfold......Page 32
2. Regulating the Conflict of Interest of Government Officials......Page 58
3. Conflict of Interest as Risk Analysis......Page 70
II: PROFESSIONS WITHIN BUSINESSES......Page 80
4. Conflict of Interest in Journalism......Page 82
5. Conflict of Interest in the Accounting Profession......Page 101
6. Conflict of Interest in Engineering......Page 121
7. Conflict of Interest on Corporate Boards......Page 138
III: ACADEMICS......Page 166
8. Counselors Who Teach and Teachers Who Counsel: Some Conflicts of Interest in Psychological and Philosophical Counseling......Page 168
9. Resisting Reasonableness (including a response by Eric Hayot and Jeff King)......Page 191
10. Conflict of Interest in Anthropology......Page 204
IV: MARKETS......Page 224
11. Financial Services......Page 226
12. The Economics of the Critic......Page 246
13. Conflict of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry: Coming to America—Tales from the Casting Couch, Gross and Net, in a Risky Business......Page 258
V: HEALTH CARE......Page 286
14. Conflict of Interest in Medical Practice......Page 288
15. Ethical Conflict in Correctional Health Services......Page 311
16. Conflict of Interest and Physical Therapy......Page 323
VI: EPILOGUE......Page 342
17. Comparing Conflict of Interest across the Professions......Page 344
C......Page 362
O......Page 363
W......Page 364