Ethics for the Professions

by Rowan, John; Zinaich, Jr., Samuel

• ISBN13: 9780155069992
• ISBN10: 0155069993
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-13
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This new text provides students with the tools necessary to make ethically sound decisions in the professions they choose for themselves. The text combines lucid explanations of leading philosophical moral theories with detailed discussion of how those theories are to be applied. Each chapter concludes with short cases and questions to engage students in solving perplexing professional ethics issues.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(10)
Part 1: Across the Professions
Moral Theories	11	(43)
Utilitarian Ethics	12	(10)
Deontological Ethics	22	(13)
Contractarian Ethics	35	(6)
Virtue Ethics	41	(6)
Feminist Ethics	47	(7)
Perspectives on Professional Ethics	54	(33)
What Is a Profession?	56	(6)
Michael D. Bayles
Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?	62	(8)
Michael Davis
Strong Separatism in Professional Ethics	70	(5)
John-Christian Smith
Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics	75	(5)
Don Welch
The Excuses That Make Professional Ethics Irrelevant	80	(7)
Banks McDowell
Employee Rights	87	(35)
The Moral Foundation of Employee Rights	90	(6)
John R. Rowan
Employment at Will and Due Process	96	(5)
Patricia H. Werhane
Tara J. Radin
Work, Privacy, and Autonomy	101	(7)
Richard L. Lippke
Affirmative Action: The Legal and Moral Contexts	108	(7)
William H. Shaw
Sex Is the Least of It: Let's Focus Harassment Law on Work, Not Sex	115	(7)
Vicki Schultz
Professional-Client Relations	122	(43)
Client and Professional	125	(9)
Paul Faber
Needs, Moral Self Consciousness, and Professional Roles	134	(6)
Andrew Alexandra
Seumas Miller
The Role of Autonomy in Professional Ethics	140	(5)
James Stacey Taylor
Confidentiality: A Comparison Across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering and Accounting	145	(7)
Mary Beth Armstrong
My Client, My Enemy	152
Judith Andre
Part 2: Specific Professions
Business and the Professions	165	(35)
A Stakeholder Theory of the Modern Corporation	168	(5)
R. Edward Freeman
The Moral Duties of Organizations. Dual-Investor Theory and the Nature of Organizations	173	(7)
Eugene Schlossberger
Paternalism in the Marketplace: Should a Salesman Be His Buyer's Keeper?	180	(3)
James M. Ebejer
Michael J. Morden
Ethical Issues in Acquisitions and Mergers	183	(6)
Robert W. McGee
Environmental Ethics and the Business Professional: Responsibilities and Opportunities	189	(11)
Philip Cafaro
Engineering	200	(41)
Ethics, Ethos, and the Professions: Some Lessons from Engineering	203	(8)
Gene Moriarty
Whistleblowing: Professionalism and Personal Life	211	(8)
Mike W. Martin
Can Engineers Hold Public Interests Paramount?	219	(5)
Taft H. Broome Jr.
Trade Secrets and Patents in Engineering: Ethical Issues Concerning Professional Information	224	(4)
Eugene Schlossberger
Optimization, Option Disclosure, and Problem Redefinition: Derivative Moral Obligations of Engineers and the Case of the Composite-Material Bicycle	228	(13)
Robert E. McGinn
Health Care	241	(65)
Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship	245	(9)
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Linda L. Emanuel
Legal and Ethical Myths About Informed Consent	254	(7)
Alan Meisel
Mark Kuczewski
Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy or Medicalizing Suicide?	261	(7)
Tania Salem
Reassessing the Reliability of Advance Directives	268	(10)
Thomas May
An Ethic of the Fitting: A Conceptual Framework for Nursing Practice	278	(5)
Anthony G. Tuckett
A Dilemma of Caring: Ethical Analysis and Justification of the Nurse Refusing Assignment	283	(10)
Lucie Ferrell
Health Care as a Business: The Ethic of Hippocrates Versus the Ethic of Managed Care	293	(5)
Mark H. Waymack
Physicians and Managed Care: Employees or Professionals?	298	(8)
Kate T. Christensen
Counseling	306	(30)
Client Empowerment and Counselor Integrity	308	(7)
Joseph Kupfer
LuAnn Klatt
Confidentiality, Counseling, and Clients Who Have AIDS: Ethical Foundations of a Model Rule	315	(7)
Elliot D. Cohen
Nonsexual Multiple Relationships	322	(8)
Kenneth S. Pope
Melba J.T. Vasquez
Lying and Deception in Counseling	330	(6)
Ronald H. Stein
Law	336	(34)
The Adversary System of Justice: An Ethical Jungle	339	(5)
Allen Taylor
Informing Clients About Limits to Confidentiality	344	(5)
Lee A. Pizzimenti
Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents: Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System	349	(9)
Elliot D. Cohen
Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?	358	(12)
Amy Gutmann
Journalism	370	(36)
The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists	373	(6)
David Detmer
Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest	379	(7)
Judith Lichtenberg
Ethical Boundaries to Media Coverage	386	(8)
Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Privacy, Politics, and the Press	394	(6)
Dennis E Thompson
Do Journalism Ethics and Values Apply to New Media?	400	(6)
Fred Mann
Education	406	(3)
Democratic Education	409	(9)
Amy Gutmann
Ethics in Higher Education: Red Flags and Grey Areas	418	(5)
Diane M. Felicio
Jean Pieniadz
Ethics and Educator/Student Relationships	423	(4)
Margaret Brockett
Professors, Students, and Friendship	427	(6)
Peter J. Markie
Autonomy and the Very Limited Role of Advocacy in the Classroom	433
Joel J. Kupperman