Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility

by Wueste, Daniel E.

• ISBN13: 9780847678150
• ISBN10: 0847678156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-09-06
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Focusing on five increasingly interrelated spheres of professional activity-politics, law, engineering, medicine, and science-the contributors to Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility cast new light on familiar ethical quandaries and direct attention to new areas of concern, particularly the institutional setting of contemporary professional activity.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Necessity and Choice in Political Ethics: Varieties of Dirty Hands	p. 37
Conflict of Interest	p. 67
Toward an Ethics of Expertise	p. 83
Role Moralities and the Problem of Conflicting Obligations	p. 103
Engineers and the Public: Sharing Responsibilities	p. 121
Legal Ethics: A Paradigm?	p. 139
Selling Drugs in the Physician's Office: A Problem of Medical Ethics	p. 161
Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU 486	p. 175
Human Genetic Engineering and the Ethics of Knowledge	p. 205
Scientific Autonomy, Scientific Responsibility	p. 219
Professions, Institutions, and Moral Risk	p. 243
Overlooking the Merits of the Individual Case: An Unpromising Approach to the Right to Die	p. 271
Selected Bibliography	p. 297
Index	p. 303
About the Contributors	p. 323
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