TY - BOOK AU - Oakley,Justin AU - Cocking,Dean TI - Virtue ethics and professional roles SN - 0511015976 AV - BJ1725 .O18 2001eb U1 - 174 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Professional ethics KW - Ethics, Professional KW - Déontologie professionnelle KW - professional ethics KW - aat KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Business Ethics KW - bisacsh KW - cct KW - fast KW - Berufsethik KW - gnd KW - Beroepsethiek KW - gtt KW - Deugden KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=77968 ER -