This collection of readings and case studies offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to professional ethics available today.
This second edition of Professions in Ethical Focus comprises over seventy-five readings complemented by twenty case studies with corresponding discussion questions. These resources are organized into several thematic units, including “conflicts of interest,” “honesty, deception, and trust,” “privacy and confidentiality,” and “professionalism, diversity, and pluralism.” An alternative table of contents is also provided, identifying readings that bear on particular professions such as engineering, journalism, medicine, law, and policing. The book’s introductory unit offers short selections from classic and contemporary ethical theory, including non-Western traditions. All of the readings have been introduced by the editors and carefully excerpted for relevance, always with the needs of student readers in mind.
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The second edition of Professions in Ethical Focus is an excellent text for any professional ethics course. Readings are smartly arranged by topic, but also cross listed by profession. The options have been greatly expanded as well, and cover a variety of new professions (military, politics, public relations, religion, technology, etc.) in addition to the classic professions of medicine, law, engineering, and finance. I also commend the editors commitment to diversity. Selections for this volume include voices that are often underrepresented, and touch on topics such as Eastern and African philosophy. This book answers needs that that have gone unaddressed in the field of professional ethics for some time. Brian Gatsch, University of New Mexico
Comments on the previous edition
An extremely useful collection of classic pieces and recent works. John Corvino, Wayne State University
Contents, Organized by Profession
Preliminaries: Why Study Professional Ethics?
Fritz Allhoff, Jonathan Milgrim, and Anand J. Vaidya, Volume Introduction
Unit 1: Ethical Principles and Practice
Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim)
1.Robert Audi, Some Approaches to Determining Ethical Obligations
2.Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals
3.John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
4.Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory
5.Daryl Koehn, What Can Eastern Philosophy Teach Us about Business Ethics
6.Thaddeus Metz, Toward an African Moral Theory
7.Yuri Cath, Reflective Equilibrium
8.John P. Anderson, Sophies Choice
Case Study: Anna M. Kietzerow, The Trolley Problem
Case Study: Rebecca Kates, Alligator River Story
Unit 2: Professions and Professional Ethics
Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim)
1.Ernest Greenwood, Attributes of a Profession
2.Don Welch, Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of
Professional Ethics
3.John T. Sanders, Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional
Codes of Ethics
4.Michael Davis, Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?
5.Avery Kolers, Am I My Professions Keeper?
6.Bob Brecher, Against Professional Ethics
Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, Determining Professional Authority: The
Canadian Amber Light Case
Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, Refusing to Work: Weighing Patient Safety
Against Long Hours
Unit 3: Professional Responsibility
Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim and Fritz Allhoff)
1.Bowen H. McCoy, The Parable of the Sadhu
2.Josie Fisher, Social Responsibility and Ethics: Clarifying the Concepts
3.Simon Robinson, The Nature of Responsibility in a Professional Setting
4.Sissela Bok, Whistleblowing and Leaks
5.Theodore L. Glasser, Objectivity Precludes Responsibility
6.Michael Pritchard, Responsible Engineering: The Importance of Character
and Imagination
7.Kenneth Kipnis, Ethics and the Professional Responsibility of Lawyers
8.Kathy Fitzpatrick and Candace Gauthier, Toward a Professional
Responsibility Theory of Public Relations Ethics
Case Study: Joanne Lau, The West Gate Bridge: Who Was Responsible?
Case Study: Dale Brown, Snowden, Security, and Civil Liberties: The Ethics
of Whistleblowing
Unit 4: Conflicts of Interest
Introduction (Fritz Allhoff and Alexander Hoffman)
1.Neil R. Luebke, Conflict of Interest as a Moral Category
2.Michael Davis, Conflict of Interest Revisited
3.Andrew Stark, Comparing Conflict of Interest Across the Professions
4.Catherine Gowthorpe and Oriol Amat, Creative Accounting: Some Ethical
Issues of Macro- and Micro-Manipulations
5.Judith Lichtenberg, Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest
6.Neil R. Luebke, Conflict of Interest in Engineering
7.Stephen Coleman, Conflict of Interest and the Police: An Unavoidable
Problem
8.Fritz Allhoff and Jonathan Milgrim, Conflicts of Interest and the
Presidency
Case Study: Fritz Allhoff, Pharmaceutical Payments and Opioid
Prescriptions
Case Study: Alexander Hoffman, The Sandusky Assault
Unit 5: Honesty, Deception, and Trust
Introduction (Fritz Allhoff and Jonathan Milgrim)
1.Harry Frankfurt, On Truth, Lies, and Bullshit
2.Jonathan E. Adler, Lying, Deceiving, or Falsely Implicating
3.Patricia H. Werhane, The Ethics of Insider Trading
4.Andreas Eriksen, What is Professional Integrity?
5.Lori Robertson, Ethically Challenged
6.David C. Thomasma, Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics
Exploration
7.David Geronemus, Lies, Damn Lies and Unethical Lies: How to Negotiate
Ethically and Effectively
8.Christopher Nathan, Liability to Deception and Manipulation: The Ethics of
Undercover Policing
Case Study: Daniel J. Wirth, Earnings and Ethics: Thinking about Enron
Case Study: Pat Lin, The Ethics of Bluffing: Oracles Takeover of
PeopleSoft
Unit 6: Privacy and Confidentiality
Introduction (Anna Bates)
1.Adam D. Moore, Privacy: Its Meaning and Value
2.Mary Beth Armstrong, Confidentiality: A Comparison across the Professions
of Medicine, Engineering, and Accounting
3.Dennis F. Thompson, Privacy, Politics, and the Press
4.Bruce M. Landesman, Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship
5.Lee A. Pizzimenti, Informing Clients about Limits to Confidentiality
6.Kenneth Kipnis, A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality
7.Bo Brinkman, An Analysis of Student Privacy Rights in the Use of
Plagiarism Detection Systems
8.Ira S. Rubinstein and Nathaniel Good, Privacy by Design: A Counterfactual
Analysis of Google and Facebook Privacy Incidents
Case Study: Aaron Quinn, Breaking a Promise to Prevent a Lie
Case Study: Erika Versalovic, To Share or Not to Share: When Patient
Confidentiality and Physicians Duties to Protect Conflict
Unit 7: Professionalism, Diversity, and Pluralism
Introduction (Jill Gatfield)
1.Carina Fourie, Fabian Schuppert, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, The Nature and
Distinctiveness of Social Equality
2.Anita M. Superson, A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment
3.Caitlin Flanagan, The Problem with HR
4.Ronald Dworkin, Why Bakke Has No Case
5.Clarence Thomas, Fisher v. University of Texas concurrence
6.John Corvino, Under Gods Authority: Professional Responsibility,
Religious Accommodation, and the Culture Wars
7.Michael S. Merry, Should Educators Accommodate Intolerance: Mark Halstead,
Homosexuality and the Islamic Case
8.Thomas A. Hemphill and Waheeda Lillevik, U.S. Pharmacists, Pharmacies, and
Emergency Contraception
Case Study: Wally Siewert, The Schiavo Case and End-of-Life Decisions
Case Study: T.J. Broy, Religious Commitments in the Workplace
Unit 8: Professionalism in a Global Context
Introduction (Kyle J. Yrigoyen and Anand J. Vaidya)
1.Vivian M. Weil, Professional Standards: Can They Shape Practice in an
International Context?
2.Thomas Donaldson, Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home
3.Curtis E. Clements, John D. Neill, and O. Scott Stovall, The Impact of
Cultural Differences on the Convergence of International Accounting Codes of
Ethics
4.Michael Perkins, International Law and the Search for Universal Principles
in Journalism Ethics
5.Andrew Boon and John Flood, Globalization of Professional Ethics? The
Significance of Lawyers Professional Codes of Conduct
6.Hengli Zhang and Michael Davis, Engineering Ethics in China
7.Ndungi wa Mungai, Gidraph Wairire, and Emma Rush, The Challenges of
Maintaining Social Work Ethics in Kenya
8.Nurbay Irmak, Professional Ethics in Extreme Circumstances:
Responsibilities of Attending Physicians and Healthcare Providers in Hunger
Strikes
Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, Standing on Principle: Tech Workers Refusing
Projects with Military Applications
Case Study: Chad Watson, Rights and Responsibility: Arrests of International
Journalists
Unit 9: Client-Based Professions
Introduction (Luke Golemon and T.J. Broy)
1.Michael Bayles, The Professional-Client Relationship
2.Edmond D. Pellegrino, The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine
3.Pamela Grace, Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility
4.Michael Davis, Is There a Profession of Engineering?
5.Yotam Lurie and Shlomo Mark, Professional Ethics of Software Engineers: An
Ethical Framework
6.Domènec Melé, Ethical Education in Accounting: Integrating Rules, Values,
and Virtues
7.Frederic Reamer, Social Work Values and Ethics: An Overview
8.Michael Rekark, Sex-Work Harm Reduction
Case Study: Hans Allhoff, Willful Ignorance and the Limits of Advocacy
Case Study: Luke Golemon, Professional Misconduct While Off-Duty
Unit 10: Institution-Based Professions
Introduction (T.J. Broy and Luke Golemon)
1.G.R. Chesley and Bruce Anderson, Are University Professors Qualified to
Teach Ethics?
2.David Resnik, What Is Ethics in Research and Why Is It Important?
3.David Detmer, The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists
4.Patricia Cook, The Military: A Profession Like No Other
5.Joanne Ciulla, Leadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory
6.Seamus Miller, Professional Ethics for Police
7.Kenneth Kipnis, The Certified Clinical Ethics Consultant
8.Paul Camenisch, Clergy Ethics and the Professional Ethics Model
Case Study: T.J. Broy, My Lai Massacre: Just Following Orders
Case Study: T.J. Broy, Church Sex Abuse
Fritz Allhoff is Professor of Philosophy at Western Michigan University.
Jonathan Milgrim is a doctoral student at the University of Washington.
Anand Vaidya is Associate Professor of Philosophy at San José State University.
