Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles or Nine Questions

Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles

Author: Dean Cocking

Taking medical and legal practice as key examples, the authors 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. They provide insights into the central notions of professional detachment, professional integrity, and moral character in professional life, and demonstrate how a virtue-based approach can help us better understand what ethical professional-client relationships would be like.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	The nature of virtue ethics	7
2	The regulative ideals of morality and the problem of friendship	39
3	A virtue ethics approach to professional roles	74
4	Ethical models of the good general practitioner	95
5	Professional virtues, ordinary vices	116
6	Professional detachment in health care and legal practice	137
	Bibliography	172
	Index	184

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Nine Questions: Secured Debt Deals in the 21st Century

Author: David G Epstein

Nine Questions is about secured debt deals: whether to do a secured debt deal, documenting the deal, dealing with deal problems. The book is organized around the "life cycle" of deals, which helps students understand why Article 9 concepts matter and how Article 9 works. The book covers principles and principal problem areas rather than all particulars of perfection and priority rules. Nine Questions is the first secured credit casebook to include edited, relevant Article 9 provisions throughout the book, right next to the problems and cases and original text.