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Restoring Responsibility : Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare |
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Book Description
Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).
About the Author
Dennis F. Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of... >> |
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Conflict of Interest in the Professions (Practical and Professional Ethics Series) |
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From the New England Journal of Medicine, June 6, 2002
When it comes to conflicts of interest, moral huffing is in plentiful supply, whereas careful analysis and ethical insight are scarce. Conflict of Interest in the Professions, a collection of 17 chapters edited by Michael Davis and Andrew Stark, is a welcome attempt to even the balance. The book soars across a wide range of professions including the law, anthropology, literary and art criticism, investment banking, and medicine... >> |
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Ethics of the Body : Postconventional Challenges (Basic Bioethics) |
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Book Description
The provocative contention of the postmodernist and feminist essays in Ethics of the Body is that conventional bioethics is out of touch, despite its growing profile. It is out of touch with an ongoing phenomenological sense of bodies themselves; with the impact of postmodernist theory as it problematizes the certainties of binary thinking; and with a postmodern culture in which bioscientific developments force us to question what is meant by the notion of th... >> |
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Medical Ethics
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