Ethics of the Professions: Medicine, Business, Media, Law

Professional Ethics have become fashionable during the past two decades. This proliferation of various professional ethics bears witness to a need to introduce ethical concerns in the exercise of various professions. In order to answer this need, each profession attempts to develop its own code of "ethics". In this respect, questions such as the following arise: Are the various ethical problems faced during the exercise of a profession different in kind from those ethical problems faced in everyday life? Or, are they ethical problems of the same kind, requiring in addition knowledge of the specific area of human endeavour in order to tackle them? The book deals with these and similar questions and points to the need for a different approach to professional ethics.

Inhalt
Philosophical Ethics and Professional Ethics. Introduction.- One Challenges to Biomedical Ethics.- 1 Ethics and the Art of Medicine.- 2 Biomedical Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy.- Two Environmental Ethics or Business Ethics?.- 3 Environmental Ethics: A New Dimension in Professional Ethics.- 4 Business Ethics, Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries.- Three Mass Media and Ethics.- 5 Philosophy in an Age of Overinformation.- 6 Ethics of Journalism or On Ethical Problems in the Mass Media.- Four Ethical Problems in Law and Politics.- 7 The Ethical Foundations of the Rule of Law.- 8 Professional Ethics in Legislation and Adjudication in the Constitutional State.- 9 The Rule of Law and the Judge.- 10 Ethics and Politics.- List of Authors.- Index of Names.