Good Work When Excellence and Ethics Meet

by Gardner, Howard E; Csikszentmihalhi, Mihaly; Damon, William

• ISBN13: 9780465026081
• ISBN10: 0465026087
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-22
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

What does it mean to carry out "good work"? What strategies allow people to maintain moral and ethical standards at a time when market forces wield unprecedented power and work life is being radically altered by technological innovation? These are the questions at the heart of this important collaboration by three leaders in psychology. Enlivened with stories of real people facing hard decisions, Good Work offers powerful insight into one of the most important issues of our time and, indeed, into the future course of science, technology, and communication.

Author Biography

Howard Gardner is Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Chairman of the Steering Committee of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface: How We Came to Write This Book	p. ix
Background
Good Work in Difficult Times	p. 3
The Conditions of Good Work	p. 15
Early Attempts to Shape Bodies and Minds	p. 37
Genetics
Genetics in the Limelight	p. 55
A Golden Age in a Well-Aligned Domain	p. 73
Storm Clouds in Genetics	p. 91
Journalism
Power Gained and Debased in the News Media	p. 125
Sources of Strength in Journalism	p. 153
Good Work in Journalism Today	p. 179
Good Work in the Future
Restoring Good Work in Journalism and Genetics	p. 209
Good Work in the Wider World	p. 223
Acknowledgments	p. 251
Information About the Good Work Project	p. 253
Methods for Studying Good Work	p. 255
Journalism Interview Protocol	p. 259
Genetics Interview Protocol	p. 263
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 275
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