| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 319 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Caring as relation and virtue in teaching / Nel Noddings -- Professing medicine, virtue based ethics, and the retrieval of professionalism / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Doctoring and self-forgiveness / Jeffrey Blustein -- Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatry / Jennifer Radden -- Trust, suffering, and the Aesculapian virtues / Annette C. Baier -- Environmental virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse -- The good life for non-human animas: what virtue requires of humans / Rebecca L. Walker -- Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller -- Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton -- Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum -- Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman -- Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote -- Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. Ivanhoe. |
| Summary |
Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. - ; Working Virtue is the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions. Virtue ethics is centrally concerned with. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Virtue.
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Virtue. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Walker, Rebecca L.
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Ivanhoe, Philip J., 1954-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Working virtue. Oxford : Clarendon, 2007 9780199271658 0199271658 (OCoLC)71541587 |
| ISBN |
9780191515118 (electronic book) |
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0191515116 (electronic book) |
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1281164461 |
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9781281164469 |
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0199271658 (Cloth) |
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9780199271658 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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