Professions in Ethical Focus: An Anthology Book

Preliminaries: Why Study Professional Ethics?

Fritz Allhoff and Anand Vaidya, "Volume Introduction"

Ernest Greenwood, "Attributes of a Profession"

Don Welch, "Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics"

John T. Sanders, "Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional Codes of Ethics"

Michael Davis, "Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?"

Unit 1 Ethics in Accounting and Finance

Anand Vaidya, "Ethics in Accounting and Finance"

Accountants' Obligations and Virtues

Mohammad J. Abdolmohammadi and Mark R. Nixon, "Ethics in the Public Accounting Profession"

Domènec Melé, "Ethical Education in Accounting: Integrating Rules, Values, and Virtues"

Learning from Corporate Scandals

"The Lessons from Enron"

Howard Rockness and Joanne Rockness, "Legislated Ethics: From Enron to Sarbanes-Oxley, the Impact on Corporate America"

Catherine Gowthorpe and Oriol Amat, "Creative Accounting: Some Ethical Issues of Macro- and Micro-Manipulation"

Insider Trading

Patricia H. Werhane, "The Ethics of Insider Trading"

Tibor R. Machan, "What Is Morally Right with Insider Trading"

Richard L. Lippke, "Justice and Insider Trading"

Case Study: Earnings and Ethics: Thinking about Enron

Unit 2 Engineering Ethics

Brennan Jacoby, "Engineering Ethics"

The Moral Foundations of Engineering

Michael Davis, "Is There a Profession of Engineering?"

Michael S. Pritchard, "Responsible Engineering: The Importance of Character and Imagination"

The Role of the Engineer

Richard T. De George, "Ethical Responsibilities of Engineers in Large Organizations: The Pinto Case"

Linda Rush Frantz, "Engineering Ethics: The Responsibility of the Manager"

John Ladd, "Bhopal: An Essay on Moral Responsibility and Civic Virtue"

Ethical Dilemmas in Engineering

Mike W. Martin, "Whistleblowing: Professionalism, Personal Life, and Shared Responsibility for Safety in Engineering"

Richard H. McCuen, "Engineering Research: Potential for Fraud"

Terry L. Turnick, "Public Versus Client InterestsAn Ethical Dilemma for the Engineer"

Vivian Weil, "Is Engineering Ethics Just Business Ethics? What Can Empirical Findings Tell Us?"

Case Study: The West Gate Bridge: Who Was Responsible?

Unit 3 Journalistic Ethics

Aaron Quinn, "Journalistic Ethics"

Journalists' Obligations and Virtues

David Detmer, "The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists"

Lori Robertson, "Ethically Challenged"

Objectivity

Theodore L. Glasser, "Objectivity Precludes Responsibility"

Michael Ryan, "Journalistic Ethics, Objectivity, Existential Journalism, Standpoint Epistemology, and Public Journalism"

Aaron Quinn, "Accepting Manipulation or Manipulating What's Acceptable?"

Privacy

Samuel P. Winch, "Moral Justifications for Privacy and Intimacy"

Lee Wilkins, "Journalists and the Character of Public Officials/Figures"

Dennis F. Thompson, "Privacy, Politics, and the Press"

Judith Lichtenberg, "Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest"

Case Study: Breaking a Promise to Prevent a Lie

Unit 4 Legal Ethics

Fritz Allhoff, "Legal Ethics"

Lawyers' Obligations and Virtues

Monroe H. Freedman, "Professional Responsibility of the Criminal Defense Lawyer: The Three Hardest Questions"

David Luban, "The Adversary System Excuse"

Elliot D. Cohen, "Pure Legal Advocates and Moral Agents: Two Concepts of a Lawyer in an Adversary System"

Amy Gutmann, "Can Virtue Be Taught to Lawyers?"

Confidentiality between Lawyer and Client

Bruce M. Landesman, "Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship"

Lee A. Pizzimenti, "Informing Clients About Limits to Confidentiality"

Is There a Duty to Represent?

Charles W. Wolfram, "A Lawyer's Duty to Represent Clients, Repugnant and Otherwise"

Kenneth Kipnis, "Responsibility for the Distribution of Legal Services"

Case Study: Willful Ignorance and the Limits of Advocacy

Unit 5 Medical Ethics

Fritz Allhoff, "Medical Ethics"

The Virtuous Physician and the Doctor-Patient Relationship

The Hippocratic Oath

Edmund D. Pellegrino, "The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine"

Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Linda L. Emanuel, "Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship"

Trust and Confidentiality

David C. Thomasma, "Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration"

Mark Siegler, "Confidentiality in MedicineA Decrepit Concept"

Kenneth Kipnis, "A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality"

Informed Consent, Competence, and Surrogate Decision Making

Jay Katz, "Informed ConsentMust It Remain a Fairy Tale?"

Allen E. Buchanan and Dan W. Brock, "Standards of Competence"

Dan W. Brock, "Surrogate Decision Making for Incompetent Adults: An Ethical Framework"

Case Study: The Schiavo Case and End-of-Life Decisions