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Virtue ethics and professional roles

Author: Justin Oakley; Dean Cocking
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Shows that virtue ethics offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles.

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Justin Oakley; Dean Cocking
ISBN: 052179305X 9780521793056 9780521027298 0521027292
OCLC Number: 45963028
Description: xii, 188 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface--
Acknowledgements--
Introduction--
1. The nature of virtue ethics--
2. The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship--
3. A virtue ethics approach to professional roles--
4. Ethical models of the good general practitioner--
5. Professional virtues, ordinary vices--
6. Professional detachment in health care and legal practice--
Bibliography--
Index.
Responsibility: Justin Oakley, Dean Cocking.
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