Virtue ethics and professional roles / Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking.
Virtue ethics and professional roles / Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N174/40
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English
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xii, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The nature of virtue ethics -- 2. The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship -- 3. A virtue ethics approach to professional roles -- 4. Ethical models of the good general practitioner -- 5. Professional virtues, ordinary vices -- 6. Professional detachment in health care and...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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England
Date Published
2001.
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"Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as virtues in the context of professional roles. Should this disturb us, or is it naive to presume t...
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Virtue ethics and professional roles / Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-183) and index.
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N174/40
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74Vv4vg7R5Kb
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052179305X :
052179305X (hbk.)
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174
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991015417359702626
