Morality and the Professional Life Values at Work

by Brincat, Cynthia A.; Wike, Victoria S.

• ISBN13: 9780139157295
• ISBN10: 0139157298
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-15
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Unique in perspective, this book offers a comprehensive values-based approach to professional ethics that is sensitive to the primary ethical issues of the workplace and that offers apositiveway for dealing with these issues. It focuses on values important toallprofessionals and on how peopledotheir work, not what type of work they do, and recognizes the strengths of various moral theories and the ways to harmonize as many moral values as possible. Readings (from literature, philosophy, and the professional ethics canon), exercises, and cases offer numerous opportunities for practice in interpreting values and applying them to the workplace.MORALITY AND THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE. What Professions and Professionals Are. What Morality Is. What Professional Ethics Is. Moral Reasons and Explanations. Moral Theories. Moral Analysis and Case Solving. VALUES AT WORK. Integrity. Respect for Persons. Justice. Compassion. Beneficence and Nonmaleficence. Responsibility.For all professionals.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Part 1: Morality and the Professional Life	1	(166)
Introduction	1	(4)
What Professions and Professionals Are	5	(27)
What It Does Not Mean to Engage in a Profession	6	(3)
Work and Our Attitude Toward It	9	(3)
Identifying and Describing a Profession and a Professional	12	(12)
Choosing a Profession---Some Things to Consider	24	(4)
So What Kind of Professional Do You Want to Be?	28	(4)
What Morality Is	32	(22)
Definitions of Ethics	33	(5)
Presuppositions of Ethics	38	(4)
Ways to Think about Ethics	42	(6)
More on Prescriptive Ethics	48	(6)
The Lawyer and the Welfare Recipient	51	(1)
The Nurse and the Sixteen-Year-Old Patient	52	(2)
What Professional Ethics Is	54	(30)
Professional Ethics Compared to General Ethics	55	(6)
Approaches to Professional Ethics and Moral Lives	61	(7)
Two Common Ways of Articulating Holism	68	(7)
Articulating Holism through the Values Approach	75	(3)
Where We Are and Where We Go From Here	78	(6)
Recycling and the Office	80	(1)
Personal and Professional	80	(1)
Conflicts in a Social Worker's Social Conscience	81	(3)
Moral Reasons and Explanations	84	(27)
Reasons and Explanations	85	(2)
Moral Reasons	87	(4)
Moral Explanations	91	(1)
Moral Dilemmas	92	(7)
Evaluating Moral Reasons and Moral Explanations	99	(12)
The Nurse and the Patient's Prenatal Test	108	(1)
The Moonlighting Supervisor	108	(1)
The School Psychologist and the Client's Parents	108	(3)
Moral Theories	111	(27)
What Moral Theories Are and How They Are Classified	112	(2)
Doing Theories: Consequentialism, Rights, Duties	114	(8)
Being Theories: Virtue, Care, Narrative	122	(8)
How to Use Moral Theories	130	(8)
The Suspicious Lawyer	134	(1)
Minority Franchising	134	(1)
The Speedy Worker	134	(1)
Client Access to the Psychologist's Records	134	(4)
Moral Analysis and Case Solving	138	(29)
Introducing the Moral Framework	139	(3)
The Framework Applied to a Case	142	(3)
Issues When Using the Framework	145	(4)
Case Resolution Model	149	(9)
Competing Values	158	(9)
The Boss Who Will Cover for You	163	(1)
The Observant Pharmacist	164	(1)
The Busy Biology Teacher	164	(1)
The Busy Biology Teacher Revisited	165	(2)
Part 2: Values at Work	167	(47)
Introduction	167	(3)
Integrity	170	(20)
What Is Integrity?	171	(3)
What Integrity Involves	174	(3)
A Case Involving Integrity	177	(3)
Interpreting Integrity: Guides to Help	180	(2)
Conflicts Involving Integrity	182	(8)
Professional Integrity and Academic Tenure	186	(1)
Lying for Business Reasons	187	(1)
Promotion and Pregnancy	188	(2)
Respect for Persons	190	(24)
What It Is to Respect Persons	191	(5)
What Respect for Persons Involves	196	(2)
A Case Involving Respect for Persons	198	(7)
Interpreting Respect for Persons: Guides to Help	205	(2)
Conflicts Involving Respect for Persons	207	(7)
How Far is Too Far?	212	(1)
Hostile Work Environment or Office Humor?	212	(1)
Implications of Tightening the Belt	213	(1)
Group 1: Readings on Integrity and Respect for Persons	214	(82)
The Lynching of Jube Benson	216	(6)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty	222	(7)
Ronald Duska
Lying and the Law	229	(15)
Kenneth Kipnis
On Duties of Virtue toward Other Men Arising from the Respect Due Them	244	(8)
Immanuel Kant
Justice	252	(25)
Definitions	253	(3)
Common Ways of Expressing Justice	256	(5)
A Case Involving Justice	261	(5)
Interpreting Justice: Guides to Help	266	(3)
Conflicts Involving Justice	269	(8)
Informing Employees of a Corporate Move	273	(1)
The Armed Pharmacist	274	(1)
The Attorney Whose Client Needs an Advance	275	(2)
Compassion	277	(19)
What Is Compassion?	279	(3)
What Compassion Involves	282	(2)
A Case Involving Compassion	284	(4)
Interpreting Compassion: Guides to Help	288	(2)
Conflicts Involving Compassion	290	(6)
Welfare to Work	293	(1)
To Grade or Not to Grade?	294	(1)
Building Profits and Building Community	294	(2)
Group 2: Readings on Justice and Compassion	296	(72)
Harrison Bergeron	297	(5)
Kurt Vonnegut
Reverse Discrimination As Unjustified	302	(5)
Lisa H. Newton
Justifying Reverse Discrimination in Employment	307	(5)
George Sher
Compassion	312	(10)
Lawrence Blum
Beneficence and Nonmaleficence	322	(26)
Relating Beneficence and Nonmaleficence	323	(2)
Recognizing Beneficence and Nonmaleficence	325	(3)
Two Cases Involving Beneficence and Nonmaleficence	328	(6)
Interpreting Beneficence and Nonmaleficence: Guides to Help	334	(6)
Conflicts Involving Beneficence and Nonmaleficence	340	(8)
The Veterinarian and the Pet Owner	345	(1)
The Chemical Company's New Hire	345	(1)
Nurses and the Patient in Pain	346	(2)
Responsibility	348	(20)
What Is Responsibility?	349	(4)
What Responsibility Involves	353	(2)
A Case Involving Responsibility	355	(5)
Interpreting Responsibility: Guides to Help	360	(2)
Conflicts Involving Responsibility	362	(6)
Responsibilities of a Repo Man	365	(1)
Responsibility and Community	365	(1)
Junior Department Member's Responsibility	366	(2)
Group 3: Readings on Beneficence and Nonmaleficence and Responsibility	368	(51)
Settled Score	369	(15)
Sara Paretsky
The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits	384	(7)
Milton Friedman
Corporations and Moral Responsibility	391	(13)
Richard T. DeGeorge
The Duty to Treat Patients with AIDS and HIV Infection	404	(15)
Albert R. Jonsen
Selected Bibliography	419	(7)
Credits and Permissions	426	(3)
Index	429