Practical and Professional Ethics: Key Concepts

✍ Scribed by Wade L. Robison

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Before we can resolve or avoid an ethical dilemma, we need to understand what makes something ethical. Practical and Professional Ethics: Key Concepts introduces us to a series of real cases where the stakes can be high, the situations complex, and the ethical issues often difficult to see.
Drawing on examples from the medicine, law and science, it offers a practical approach to thinking critically about the ethical problems that occur in our professions, teaching us how to:
By guiding us through the concepts, issues and skills at play when we face an ethical problem, we learn how to find a solution. Ideal for any level of student or professional, this book provides the grounding required to become a more complex moral thinker, a quality that can be applied in a number of fields and jobs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figure
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Objects of Ethical Concern
2 Making Ethical Judgments
3 Professions
4 Norms and Professional Codes of Ethics
5 Virgin Eyes: Seeing from Other Points of View
6 Understanding Cases
7 Kinds of Ethical Problems
8 Internal and External Moral Problems
9 Fundamental Moral Relations
10 Discretion
11 Rules of Skill
12 Rules of Skill, Yet Again
13 Professional Character
14 Social Responsibilities
15 Concluding Remarks
Notes
Acknowledgments
1 Objects of Ethical Concern
2 Making Ethical Judgments
3 Professions
4 Norms and Professional Codes of Ethics
5 Virgin Eyes: Seeing from Other Points of View
6 Understanding Cases
7 Kinds of Ethical Problems
8 Internal and External Moral Problems
9 Fundamental Moral Relations
10 Discretion
11 Rules of Skill
12 Rules of Skill, Yet Again
13 Professional Character
14 Social Responsibilities
15 Concluding Remarks
Index