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Profits and Professions

Essays in Business and Professional Ethics

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Wade L. Robison

    1. Kalamazoo College, USA

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  2. Michael S. Pritchard

    1. Western Michigan University, USA

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  3. Joseph Ellin

    1. Western Michigan University, USA

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Professional Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Professional Responsibility

      • Wade L. Robison
      Pages 3-8

    3. Professional Responsibility and the Responsibility of Professions

      • Kenneth Kipnis
      Pages 9-22

    4. Professionalization

      • Lisa H. Newton
      Pages 23-36

    5. Moral Responsibility in Professional Ethics

      • Gerald J. Postema
      Pages 37-63

    6. Professionals, Clients, and Others

      • Michael D. Bayles
      Pages 65-73

  3. Business Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Business Ethics

      • Joseph Ellin
      Pages 77-87

    3. Is Action Within the Law Morally Sufficient in Business?

      • L. Duane Willard
      Pages 89-99

    4. The Theoretical Twist to Irresponsibility in Business

      • Robert V. Hannaford
      Pages 101-112

    5. A Laissez Faire Approach to Business Ethics

      • Donald R. Koehn
      Pages 113-132

    6. The Business of Ethics

      • Norman Chase Gillespie
      Pages 133-140

    7. The Moral Status of Bluffing and Deception in Business

      • Thomas L. Carson, Richard E. Wokutch
      Pages 141-155

    8. The Social Business of Business

      • Richard T. De George
      Pages 157-174

  4. Professionals in a Corporate Setting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Professionals in a Corporate Setting

      • Michael S. Pritchard
      Pages 177-182

    3. Moral Leadership in the Corporate Setting

      • William F. May
      Pages 183-213

    4. Accountability and the Bureaucratization of Corporations

      • Thomas Donaldson
      Pages 215-224

    5. Evaluating Codes of Professional Ethics

      • John Kultgen
      Pages 225-264
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About this book

Suppose an accountant discovers evidence of shady practices while ex­ amining the books of a client. What should he or she do? Accountants have a professional obligation to respect the confidentiality of their cli­ ents' accounts. But, as an ordinary citizen, our accountant may feel that the authorities ought to be informed. Suppose a physician discov­ ers that a patient, a bus driver, has a weak heart. If the patient contin­ ues bus driving even after being informed of the heart condition, should the physician inform the driver's company? Respect for patient confidentiality would say, no. But what if the driver should suffer a heart attack while on duty, causing an accident in which people are killed or seriously injured? Would the doctor bear some responsibility for these consequences? Special obligations, such as those of confidentiality, apply to any­ one in business or the professions. These obligations articulate, at least in part, what it is for someone to be, say, an accountant or a physician. Since these obligations are special, they raise a real possibility of con­ flict with the moral principles we usually accept outside of these spe­ cial relationships in business and the professions. These conflicts may become more accentuated for a professional who is also a corporate employee-a corporate attorney, an engineer working for a construction company, a nurse working as an employee of a hospital.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Kalamazoo College, USA

    Wade L. Robison

  • Western Michigan University, USA

    Michael S. Pritchard, Joseph Ellin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Profits and Professions

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Business and Professional Ethics

  • Editors: Wade L. Robison, Michael S. Pritchard, Joseph Ellin

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5625-0

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-039-8Published: 02 August 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5627-4Published: 25 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5625-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 331

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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