| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Professional ethics.
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Professional ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cocking, Dean, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Oakley, Justin, 1960- Virtue ethics and professional roles. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 052179305X (DLC) 2001025236 (OCoLC)45963028 |
| ISBN |
0511015976 (electronic book) |
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9780511015977 (electronic book) |
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0511047231 (electronic book) |
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9780511047237 (electronic book) |
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9780511487118 (electronic book) |
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0511487118 (electronic book) |
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1280433000 |
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9781280433009 |
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052179305X |
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9780521793056 |
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0511156499 |
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9780511156496 |
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9780521027298 |
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0521027292 |
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