What does it mean to be an ethical professional? A professional career can be so demanding that it permeates every aspect of a person's life and personality. In light of this fact, it is especially important for students who are planning to enter a chosen profession to understand its moral status, moral virtues, and possible moral pitfalls, so that they will be equipped to deal with the inevitable moral quandaries that they will encounter as professionals.

The most up-to-date professional ethics reader available, Ethics Across the Professions analyzes the complex ethical issues that arise in such fields as engineering, finance, healthcare, journalism, and law. Featuring a wide array of both classic and contemporary sources, it ranges from works by Aristotle and Kant to selections by Michael Bayles, Sissela Bok, Paul Ekman, and Thomas Nagel.

Organized topically, the anthology covers what it means to be a professional, outlines several ethical models, and addresses key issues including deception in professional life, privacy, loyalty, social welfare, conflicts of interest, and self-regulation. The book includes detailed chapter introductions, several practical case studies at the end of each chapter, and provocative discussion questions on issues like "whistle-blowing," the Iraq War, educating illegal immigrant children, and advertisements for pharmaceutical companies.

Edited by three renowned ethicists, Ethics Across the Professions is especially suited for introductory professional ethics courses taught in philosophy departments as well as in nursing schools, business schools, and other professional programs.

Clancy Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Martin has authored, coauthored, and edited several books in philosophy, including Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love (2015), Honest Work, Third Edition (OUP, 2013), and The Philosophy of Deception (OUP, 2009).

Wayne Vaught is Dean for College of Arts & Sciences, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at University of Missouri-Kansas City. Professor Vaught has published articles on bioethics for The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Theoretical Ethics and Bioethics, and the Hastings Center Report.

The late Robert C. Solomon was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the author or editor of more than forty books.

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PREFACE

1 What Is It to Be a Professional? The Professions, Leadership, and Work

Henry Mintzberg and James B. Quian | The Professional Organization
Michael D. Bayles | The Professions
Michael Davis | Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?
Joanne B. Ciulla | What Is Good Leadership?
Richard A. Wasserstrom | Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues
Samuel Gorovitz | Good Doctors
Preston Stovall | Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics

CASES
Case 1.1: Martin Benjamin and Joy Curtis, "Professionalism and Nursing"
Case 1.2: Nick Denton, "Less Heat, More Light"
Case 1.3: Michael C. Loui, "The Professional Engineer"

2 How to Be Ethical

Walter Stace | On Ethical Relativism
Aristotle | On the Good Life
Plato | The Ring of Gyges
Thomas Hobbes | From Leviathan
Immanuel Kant | Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
John Stuart Mill | Utilitarianism
John Dewey | The Construction of Good
Virginia Held | On Feminist Ethics

CASES
*Case 2.1: American Anthropological Association Statement on Race
Case 2.2: James Rachels, "The Prisoner's Dilemma"
Case 2.3: Bernard Williams, "George, Jim, and Utilitarianism"

3 Professional Duties, Clients' Rights

Michael D. Bayles I The Professional-Client Relationship
Joel J. Kupperman | Autonomy and the Very Limited Role of Advocacy in the Classroom
John Wesley Hall, Jr. I Professional Responsibility for Lawyers
John K. Davis I Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to Quit
Monroe H. Freedman I Solicitation of Clients: The Professional Responsibility to Chase Ambulances
Julie Cantor and Ken Baum I The Limits of Conscientious Objection-May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?
Alan Meisel and Mark Kuczewski I Legal and Ethical Myths About Informed Consent
Judge Spotswood W. Robinson, III I Opinion in Canterbury v. Spence
*Erin Rothwell, Donna Brassil, Marietta Barton-Baxter, Kimberly A. Brownley, Neal W. Dickert, Daniel E. Ford, Stephanie A. Kraft, Jennifer B. McCormick, and Benjamin S. Wilfond | Informed Consent: Old and New Challenges in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gerald Andrews Emison I American Pragmatism as a Guide for Professional Ethical Conduct for Engineers

CASES
Case 3.1: Edwin J. Perkins, "The Booming Twenties"
Case 3.2: Megan Rickel, "An Apple a Day"
Case 3.3: Allison Stevens, "Target at the Center of Battle over Plan B"

4 Truth, Lies, and Deception

Clancy Martin I A Brief Introduction to the Morality of Deception
Robert C. Solomon I Is It Ever Right to Lie?
Joseph S. Ellin and Milton F. Lunch I Special Professional Morality and the Duty of Veracity
Paul Ekman and Mark G. Frank I Lies That Fail
*Yuritsa Zolkefi I The Ethics of Truth-Telling in Health-Care Settings
Joseph Collins I Should Doctors Tell the Truth?
Ronald H. Stein I Lying and Deception for Counselors and Clients
Benjamin Freedman I Offering Truth: One Ethical Approach to the Uninformed Cancer Patient
Burton M. Leiser I Truth in the Marketplace

CASES
Case 4.1: Stephen Hess, "Lying (for Journalists)"
Case 4.2: Mary R. Anderlik, Rebecca D. Pentz, and Kenneth R. Hess, "Revisiting the Truth-Telling Debate: A Study of Disclosure Practices at a Major Cancer Center"
Case 4.3: Robert C. Solomon, "Flying or Lying in Business Class"
Case 4.4: Robert C. Solomon, "Willful Ignorance? Or Deception?"
Case 4.5: Byron Waller, "Clients Telling the Truth as They Know It"

5 Privacy and Confidentiality

Mary Beth Armstrong | Confidentiality: A Comparison Across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering, and Accounting
*Donalda Halabuza | Guidelines for Social Workers' Use of Social Networking Websites
Kenneth Kipnis | A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality
Wayne Vaught | Parents, Lies, and Videotape: Covert Video Surveillance in Pediatric Care
Jesper Ryberg | Privacy Rights, Crime Prevention, CCTV and the Life of Mrs. Aremac
*Jim Isaak and Mina J. Hannah I User Data Privacy: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and Privacy Protection
Bo Brinkman | An Analysis of Student Privacy Rights in the Use of Plagiarism Detection Systems

CASES
Case 5.1: Oliver Mytton, "Should Doctors Talk to Relatives Without a Competent Patient's Consent?"
Case 5.2: R. Jeffrey Smith, "DeLay PAC Is Indicted for Illegal Donations: Corporate Gifts Aided GOP in Texas Races"
Case 5.3: Dwight Garner, "You're a Voyeur, I'm a Voyeur"
Case 5.4: Philip H. Albert, "Trade Secrets: It's Not Who You Know"

6 Integrity, Secrecy, and Trust

Sissela Bok | Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility
Michael Davis | Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing
Ronald Duska | Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty
Lynne McFall | Integrity
Cheshire Calhoun | Standing for Something
Amy Gutmann | Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?
*Dennis Broeders | The Secret in the Information Society
Thomas Nagel | Ruthlessness in Public Life
Josiah Royce | Loyalty
Bernard Williams | Politics and Moral Character

CASES
Case 6.1: Charles F. Squire, "Is It Ethical to Criticize Other Dentists' Work?"
Case 6.2: Megan Rickel, "Blowing the Whistle in Iraq"
Case 6.3: Myron Glazer, "Ten Whistleblowers and How They Fared"

7 Professionalism and Social Responsibility

Bowen H. McCoy | The Parable of the Sadhu
John Rawls | Justice as Fairness
Peter Singer | Rich and Poor
Tom Tomlinson | Caring for Risky Patients: Duty or Virtue
Dalai Lama | The Ethic of Compassion
Amartya Sen | The Economics of Poverty
Rachel Smolkin | Off the Sidelines

CASES
Case 7.1: Suzanne Gamboa, "Groups Debate Costs of Educating Illegal Immigrant Children"
Case 7.2: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, "The Fordasaurus"
Case 7.3: Plato, "The Carpenter and the Cobbler"
*Case 7.4: J. Sophia Yin, "Physicians' Duty to Treat in a Pandemic"
*Case 7.5: Doug McConnell, "Balancing the Duty to Treat with the Duty to Family in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic"
Case 7.6: Virginia G. Maurer, "Corporate Social Responsibility and the 'Divided Corporate Self': The Case of Chiquita in Colombia"

8 Conflicts of Interest and Government Regulation

C. S. Lewis | The Inner Ring
Adam Bellow | Nepotism in American Business
Stephen Coleman | Conflict of Interest and Police: An Unavoidable Problem
Daniel S. Goldberg | Concussions, Professional Sports, and Conflicts of Interest: Why the National Football League's Current Policies are Bad for Its (Players') Health
Richard T. De George | Ethical Issues for Accountants
Jason E. Klein and Alan R. Fleischman | The Private Practicing Physician-Investigator: Ethical Implications of Clinical Research in the Office Setting
Karen Sanders | Ethics and Journalism
Maude Laliberté and Anne Hudon | Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation
Rebecca Dresser | Plan B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
*Roland Jones and Alexander Simpson I Medical Assistance in Dying: Challenges for Psychiatry
Kenneth J. Arrow | Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency
John Corvino | 'Under God's Authority": Professional Responsibility, Religious Accommodations, and the Culture Wars

CASES
Case 8.1: Scott J. Turner, "Drug Company Gifts: Marketing Technique Poses Ethical
Questions for Some"
Case 8.2: Maria Merritt, "Moral Conflict in Clinical Trials"
Case 8.3: Albert Camus, "Quarantine Ethics"
Case 8.4: George J. Annas, "'Culture of Life': Politics at the Bedside - The Case of Terri
Schiavo"

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