A-Z of Professional Ethics

Essential Ideas for the Caring Professions

Richard Hugman

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780230337220
• eBook ISBN: 9781350312791
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nursing

If you are looking for an accessible introduction to the essential concepts that define the field of professional ethics, then this is the book for you. Richard Hugman's A-Z of Professional Ethics offers a winning combination of breadth and concision, expertly organised to make usage intuitive and easy. Its simple A-Z structure will help you appreciate the architecture of ethics and give you a vocabulary for ethical debate. Clever cross-referencing allows you to find your own routes through the material as well as signposting interesting connections between different ideas. Unique to this book are its sensitivity to cross-cultural influences and its careful integration of different professional perspectives. These give it outstanding balance and coverage. A rich source of further references, it offers readers an invaluable guide to an increasingly extensive literature. Whatever your field of study or practice (social work, health care, or therapy), this book will prove an enduring source of clarity, insight and reflection.

index

accountability, 135

affirmative action, 80

African/Black ethics, xix, 1, 5–6, 21, 28, 32, 64–6, 73, 81, 92, 97–9, 110–11, 128–9, 135, 156

see also ma’at; ubuntu

Allmark, P., 15

Altruism, 1–3, 10, 47–8

Annan, K., 75

anti-oppressive values, see oppression

Apel, K.-O., 151

Aquinas, T., 117

Aristotle, 6, 28, 70, 112–13, 166–8, 174

Asia, xix, 5–6, 27–9, 32, 64–6, 72, 78, 106–7, 115, 126–7, 133

see also Confucius

attentiveness, 14–15, 17, 21

authenticity, 51

authority, 36, 83, 120

autonomy, 3–7, 18, 20, 26, 29–30, 47–8, 51, 58, 62, 64, 72, 89, 106, 111–12, 121, 123–5, 130–1, 133, 169, 175

‘bad faith’, 51, 82

Banks, S., 6–7, 12–13, 45, 134–6, 138, 144, 153, 164–5

Bauman, Z., 16, 119–20

Beauchamp, T. L., 6, 8, 13, 18, 82, 92–3, 100–1, 111, 115, 123–5, 140, 144, 153, 159–60

beneficence, 2, 8–10, 18, 24, 100, 102, 104, 110, 115, 118, 123–5, 144, 153, 169

benevolence, 10–11, 16

Bentham, J., 160

Berlin, I., 114

Biestek, F., 26

biomedical ethics, 8, 55, 60, 123

blame, 22

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• How to use this book
• Introduction
• African/Black ethics
• beneficence
• care (duty of)
• deontology (ethics of duty)
• emotion and moral sentiment
• fairness
• harmony
• indigenous (first nations) ethics
• justice (includes distributive, retributive and restorative justice)
• liberalism
• ma’at
• non-maleficence (non-malfeasance)
• oppression (includes anti-oppressive values and action)
• partiality and impartiality
• relativism (cultural, ethical)
• service
• trust
• ubuntu
• values
• welfare
• Further reading
• References
• Index