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Ethics and Excuses: The Crisis in Professional Responsibility

Autor Banks McDowell
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iun 2000 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Rarely discussed in courses on ethics is the topic of excuses, but in McDowell's view, excuses offer the most illuminating way to understand the true nature of ethical problems in the professions. He looks at excuses that professionals give when accused of acting unethically, and asks, when are they valid and when not? Problems of professional ethics are really problems of compliance, he argues, not ignorance of expectations. The study of excuses can help us understand what these problems are and offer insights into ways to solve them. Banks maintains too that our ethical expectations may need overhauling, given substantial changes that have occurred in how professionals do their work today. They can be easily persuaded that what they are doing is not unethical; it depends on the excuses they give themselves as well as others. Professionals know what's expected of them, but social and economic pressures make compliance difficult. Professionals in all fields, who struggle to be both successful and ethical, will find the book challenging, provocative, and yet sympathetic and reassuring too. It will also be an important resource for graduate students in courses exploring the relationship between business and ethics.Excuses may be ways of avoiding professional responsibility, says McDowell, but they may also be the way in which general ethical principles are adapted to particular contexts. They may also indicate that ethical codes need to be reformulated to adapt to changes in how professional services are delivered. Specialization, urbanization and the systematic breakdown in community relationships, the globalization of the economy, system, and market pressures for success-for all these reasons, professionals today face problems much different from those faced by their counterparts earlier in the century. Excuses also raise the problem of whether any system of voluntary compliance, like professional ethics, can function when the decision on whether an excuse is valid or invalid rests with the actor, who can rationalize almost any self-interested action he or she might take. McDowell explores these issues and others in a fresh, readable style, with numerous anecdotal examples, and with evidence from many sources that the crisis is real and demands quick but lasting remedies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781567203868
ISBN-10: 1567203868
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

BANKS McDOWELL is Professor Emeritus, Washburn University School of Law. Earlier he was Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, and held other positions on the faculties of Syracuse University and the University of Tulsa. Among his various publications are three books with Quorum: Deregulation and Competition in the Insurance Industry (1989), Ethical Conduct and the Professional's Dilemma (1991), and The Crisis in Insurance Regulation (1994).

Cuprins

PrefaceIntroduction: The Ethical Crisis?Responsibility and ExcusesEthical Excuses:Law and Ethics: The Different SystemsDefenses: The Legal ExcusesThe Fallibility of Human BeingsThe Informal Moral CodeThe Need to Reformulate Ethical ExpectationsThe Professional and the Market--Is Efficiency the Predominant Value?The Responsibility of Others Toward the Excuse-Giver: The Need for DialogueConclusionBibliographyIndex