附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-183) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The nature of virtue ethics; CHAPTER 2 The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship; CHAPTER 3 A virtue ethics approach to professional roles; CHAPTER 4 Ethical models of the good general practitioner; CHAPTER 5 Professional virtues, ordinary vices; CHAPTER 6 Professional detachment in health care and legal practice; Bibliography; Index.
摘要:Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, Justin Oakley and Dean Cocking develop a rigorous articulation and defence of virtue ethics, contrasting it with other types of character-based ethical theories and showing that it offers a promising new approach to the ethics of professional roles.
