Virtue ethics and professional roles / Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking.

By:

Oakley, Justin, 1960-

Contributor(s):

Cocking, Dean, 1958-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 188 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511015976
9780511015977
0511047231
9780511047237
9780511487118
0511487118
1280433000
9781280433009

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtue ethics and professional roles.DDC classification:

174 21

LOC classification:

BJ1725 .O18 2001eb

Other classification:

08.38
B822. 9

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index.

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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.

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