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1. What Is It to Be a Professional? The Professions, Leadership, and Work
Henry Mintzberg, "The Professional Organization"
Michael D. Bayles, "The Professions"
Michael Davis, "Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?"
Joanne Ciulla, "What
Is Good Leadership?"
Richard A. Wasserstrom, "Lawyers as Professionals: Some Moral Issues"
Samuel Gorovitz, "Good Doctors"
Preston Stoval, "Professional Virtue, Professional Self-Awareness, and Engineering Ethics" *
CASE 1.1: "Professionalism and Nursing"
CASE 1.2: Nick Denton,
"Less Heat, More Light"
CASE 1.3: Michael C. Loui, "The Professional Engineer"
2. How to be Ethical
Walter Stace, On Ethical Relativism *
Aristotle, "On the Good Life"
Plato, "The Ring of Gyges"
Thomas Hobbes, "Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning Their Felicity
and Misery" and "Of the First and Second Natural Laws and of Contracts"
Immanual Kant from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism
John Dewey, The Construction of Good *
Virginia Held On Feminist Ethics *
CASE 2.1: James Rachels,
"The Prisoner's Dilemma"
CASE 2.2: Bernard Williams, "George, Jim, and Utilitarianism"
3. Professional Duties, Client's Rights
Michael D. Bayles, "The Professional-Client Relationship"
Joel J. Kupperman, "Autonomy and the Very Limited Role of Advocacy in the Classroom"
John
Wesley Hall, Jr., "Professional Responsibility for Lawyers"
John K. Davis, "Conscientious Refusal and a Doctor's Right to Quit"
Monroe H. Freedman, "Solicitation of Clients: The Professional Responsibility to Chase Ambulances"
Julie Cantor and Ken Baum, "The Limits of Conscientious
Objection--May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?"
Judge Spotswood W. Robinson, III, "Opinion in Canterbury v. Spence"
Gerald Andrews Emison American Pragmatism as a Guide for Professional Ethical Conduct for Engineers *
CASE 3.1: Edwin J. Perkins, "The
Booming Twenties"
CASE 3.2: Megan Rickel, "An Apple a Day"
CASE 3.3: Allison Stevens, "Target at the Center of Battle over Plan B"
4. Truth, Lies, and Deception
Clancy Martin A Brief Introduction on the Morality of Deception *
Robert C. Solomon, "Is It Ever Right to
Lie?"
Joseph S. Ellin, "Special Professional Morality and the Duty of Veracity"
Paul Ekman and Mark G. Frank, "Lies That Fail"
Sissela Bok, "Lying and Lies to the Sick and Dying"
Joseph Collins, "Should Doctors Tell the Truth"
Ronald H. Stein, "Lying and Deception for Clients and
Counselors"
Burton Leiser, "Truth in the Marketplace"
CASE 4.1: Stephen Hess, "Lying (for Journalists)"
CASE 4.2: Mary R. Anderlik, Rebecca D. Pentz, and Kenneth R. Hess, "Revisiting the Truth-Telling Debate: A Study of Disclosure Practices at a Major Cancer Center"
CASE 4.3: Robert
C. Solomon, "Flying or Lying in Business Class"
CASE 4.4: Robert C. Solomon, "Willful Ignorance? Or Deception?"
CASE 4.5: Byron Waller: Clients Telling the Truth as they Know It *
5. Privacy, Confidentiality, Secrecy, and Trust
Mary Beth Armstrong, "Confidentiality: A Comparison
Across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering, and Accounting"
Sissela Bok, "The Limits of Confidentiality"
Kenneth Kipnis, A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality *
Alan Donagan, "Justifying Legal Practice in the Adversary System: A Look at Confidentiality"
Wayne Vaught,
"Parents, Lies, and Videotape: Covert Surveillance in Pediatric Care"
Jesper Ryberg, Privacy Rights, Crime Prevention, CCTV, and the Life of Mrs. Aremac*
Bo Brinkman, An Analysis of Student Privacy Rights in the Use of Plagiarism Detection Systems *
CASE 5.1: O. Mytton, "Should Doctors
Talk to Relatives Without a Competent Patient's Consent?"
CASE 5.2: R. Jeffrey Smith, "DeLay PAC Is Indicted for Illegal Donations: Corporate Gifts Aid GOP in Texas Races"
CASE 5.3: Dwight Garner, "You're a Voyeur, I'm a Voyeur"
CASE 5.4: Philip H. Albert, "Trade Secrets: It's Not Who
You Know"
6. Integrity and Loyalty: Whistle-Blowing and Self-Regulation
Sissela Bok, "Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibility"
Michael Davis, "Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing"
Ronald Duska, "Whistleblowing and Employee Loyalty"
Robert C. Solomon and Fernando Flores,
Building Trust *
Cheshire Calhoun, "Standing for Something"
Amy Gutmann, "Can Virtue be Taught to Lawyers?"
Sissela Bok, Defining Secrecy - Some Crucial Distinctions *
Thomas Nagel, "Ruthlessness in Public Life"
Josiah Royce, Loyalty *
Bernard Williams, "Politics and Moral
Character"
CASE 6.1: Charles F. Squire, "Is it Ethical to Criticize Other Dentists' Work?"
CASE 6.2: Megan Rickel, "Blowing the Whistle in Iraq"
CASE 6.3: Myron Glazer, "Ten Whistleblowers and How They Fared"
CASE 6.4: Mimi Swants and Sherron Watkins, "Winners and Losers"
CASE
6.5: Megan Rickel, "Chatty Doctors"
7. Professionalism and Social Responsibility *
Bowen H. McCoy, "The Parable of the Sadhu"
John Rawls, "Justice as Fairness"
Peter Singer, "Rich and Poor"
Peter Singer, "What Should a Billionaire Give - And What Should You?"
Tom Tomlinson,
Caring for Risky Patients: Duty or Virtue *
Dalai Lama, "The Ethic of Compassion"
Amartya Sen, "The Economics of Poverty"
Rachel Smolkin, "Off the Sidelines"
CASE 7.1: Arianna Huffington, "Pigs on Parade: Power, Perks, and Impunity"
CASE 7.2: Suzanne Gamboa, "Groups Debate Costs
of Educating Illegal Immigrant Children"
CASE 7.3: William H. Shaw and Vincent Barry, "The Fordasaurus"
CASE 7.4 Plato, "The Carpenter and the Cobbler" *
CASE 7.5 Developing the Duty to Treat: HIV, SARS, and the next epidemic *
CASE 7.6 Corporate Social Responsibility and the
"Divided Corporate Self" The case of Chiquita in Columbia *
8. Conflicts of Interest and Government Regulation *
C.S. Lewis, The Inner Ring *
Adam Bellow, "Nepotism in American Business"
Stephen Coleman, Conflict of Interest and Police: An Unavoidable Problem *
Daniel S.
Goldberg, Concussions, Professional Sports, and Conflicts of Interest: Why the National Football League's Current Policies are Bad for Its (Players') Health *
Richard T. DeGeorge, "Ethical Issues for Accountants"
Jason E. Klein and Alan R. Fleischman, "The Private Practicing
Physician-Investigator: Ethical Implications of Clinical Research in the Office Setting"
Karen Sanders, "Ethics and Journalism"
Maude Laliberte and Anne Hudon, Do Conflicts of Interest Create a New Professional Norm? Physical Therapists and Workers' Compensation *
Rebecca Dresser, Plan
B: Politics and Values at the FDA, Again
David Orentlicher and Lois Snyder, Can Assisted Suicide be Regulated?
Kenneth J. Arrow, Social Responsibility and Economic Efficiency *
John Corvino, "Under God's Authority": Professional Responsibility, Religions Accomodations and the Culture
Wars *
CASE 8.1: Scott J. Turner, "Drug Company Gifts: Marketing Technique Poses Ethical Questions for Some"
CASE 8.2: Maria Merritt, "Moral Conflict in Clinical Trials"
CASE 8.3: Albert Camus, "Quarantine Ethics"
CASE 8.4: George J. Annas, "'Culture of Life': Politics at the Bedside
Table--The Case of Terry Schiavo"
CASE 8.5: Lisa Belkin, "Prime Time Pushers" *
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Clancy Martin is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. Martin has authored, coauthored and edited several books in philosophy, including Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love (2015, Farrar Straus & Giroux),
Honest Work (Oxford University Press, 2006, 2010, 2014) with Robert Solomon and Joanne Ciulla, and The Philosophy Of Deception (Oxford University Press, 2009). Clancy is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and also writes for the New York Times, the London Review of Books, the Wall Street
Journal, GQ, and The Atlantic. He publishes fiction in Noon, Mcsweeney's, and elsewhere. In 2007 his story "The Best Jeweler" won The Pushcart Prize, and his first novel How to Sell (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009) was widely acclaimed.
Wayne Vaught is Dean for College of Arts &
Sciences, Professor of Philosophy and Medicine and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics at University of Missouri -Kansas City. Professor Vaught has published articles on bioethics for The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Theoretical Ethics and Bioethics, and the Hastings Center
Report.
The late Robert C. Solomon was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He was the author or editor of more than forty books including The Little Philosophy Book (2007), Ethics Across the
Professions (2009), and Honest Work, Third Edition (2014), all published by OUP.
