| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The nature of virtue ethics; CHAPTER 2 The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship; CHAPTER 3 A virtue ethics approach to professional roles; CHAPTER 4 Ethical models of the good general practitioner; CHAPTER 5 Professional virtues, ordinary vices; CHAPTER 6 Professional detachment in health care and legal practice; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Professional ethics.
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Ethics, Professional
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professional ethics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Professional ethics.
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Professional ethics
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Berufsethik
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Beroepsethiek.
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Deugden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cocking, Dean, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0511015976 |
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9780511015977 |
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0511047231 |
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9780511047237 |
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9780511487118 |
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0511487118 |
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1280433000 |
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9781280433009 |
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