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Author Thompson, Dennis F. (Dennis Frank), 1940-

Title Restoring responsibility : ethics in government, business, and healthcare / Dennis F. Thompson
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 349 pages)
Contents Part I. Demands of Institutional Politics: 1. The problem of many hands -- 2. The responsibility of advisers -- 3. Bureaucracy and democracy -- 4. Judicial responsibility -- 5. Representatives in the welfare state -- Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure: 6. Democratic secrecy -- 7. Mediated corruption -- 8. Election time -- 9. Hypocrisy and democracy -- 10. Private life and public office -- Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility: 11. Restoring distrust -- 12. The institutional turn in professional ethics -- 13. Hospital ethics -- 14. Conflicts of interest in medicine -- 15. The privatization of business ethics -- 16. Democratic theory and global society
Summary In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability). Combining theory and practice with many concrete examples and proposals for reform, these essays could be used in courses in applied ethics or political theory and will be read by professionals and graduate students in schools of political science, public policy, law, public health, journalism and business
Notes Collection of previously published articles
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political ethics.
Medical ethics.
Business ethics.
Responsibility.
Professional ethics.
Ethics, Professional
Delivery of Health Care -- ethics
Ethics, Institutional
Social Responsibility
Ethics, Medical
professional ethics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Professional ethics
Business ethics
Medical ethics
Political ethics
Responsibility
Medizinische Ethik
Politische Ethik
Wirtschaftsethik
Politieke ethiek.
Bedrijfsethiek.
Medische ethiek.
Verantwoordelijkheid.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004040654
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