Virtue ethics and professional roles:
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Main Author: Oakley, Justin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 188 pages)
ISBN:0511015976
0511047231
0511156499
0511487118
0521027292
052179305X
9780511015977
9780511047237
9780511156496
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9780521793056

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