Professional Ethics and Social Responsibility

Daniel E. Wueste

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 1994
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461641322
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

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

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 - Introduction
• 2 - Necessity and Choice in Political Ethics: Varieties of Dirty Hands
• 3 - Conflict of Interest
• 4 - Toward an Ethics of Expertise
• 5 - Role Moralities and the Problem of Conflicting Obligations
• 6 - Engineers and the Public: Sharing Responsibilities
• 7 - Legal Ethics: A Paradigm?
• 8 - Selling Drugs in the Physician’s Office: A Problem of Medical Ethics
• 9 - Professional Responsibility, Reproductive Choice, and the Limits of Appropriate Intervention: The Battle Over RU 486
• 10 - Human Genetic Engineering and the Ethics of Knowledge
• 11 - Scientific Autonomy, Scientific Responsibility
• 12 - Professions, Institutions, and Moral Risk
• 13 - Overlooking the Merits of the Individual Case: An Unpromising Approach to the Right to Die
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Contributors