Working virtue : virtue ethics and contemporary moral problems /
Title By: Walker, Rebecca L [Editor.] | Ivanhoe, P. J [Editor.]
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BookPublisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: ix, 319 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780199271658 (trade : alk. paper); 0199271658 (trade : alk. paper)Subject(s): Virtue | Ethics | Moral conditions | Virtue | Ethics | Moral conditionsDDC classification: 179/.9 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 179.9 WO RK (Browse shelf) | Available | T0042400 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Caring as relation and virtue in teaching / Nel Noddings -- Professing medicine, virtue based ethics, and the retrieval of professionalism / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Doctoring and self-forgiveness / Jeffrey Blustein -- Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatry / Jennifer Radden -- Trust, suffering, and the Aesculapian virtues / Annette C. Baier -- Environmental virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse -- The good life for non-human animals: what virtue requires of humans / Rebecca L. Walker -- Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller -- Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton -- Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum -- Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman -- Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote -- Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. Ivanhoe.
Collects thirteen essays by leading figures in ethical theory, examining bioethics, professional ethics, law, family and interpersonal ethics, and more, from a variety of theoretical stances.
Adult
Adult.