Restoring responsibility : ethics in government, business, and healthcare / Dennis F. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Dennis F. (Dennis Frank), 1940- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ethics.

Medical ethics.

Business ethics.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important collection of essays Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability). Combining theory and practice with many concrete examples and proposals for reform, these essays could be used in courses in applied ethics or political theory and will be read by professionals and graduate students in schools of political science, public policy, law, public health, journalism and business.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Need for Institutional Responsibility; 1 The Problem of Many Hands; 2 The Responsibility of Advisers; 3 Bureaucracy and Democracy; 4 Judicial Responsibility; 5 Representatives in the Welfare State; 6 Democratic Secrecy; 7 Mediated Corruption; 8 Election Time; 9 Hypocrisy and Democracy; 10 Private Life and Public Office; 11 Restoring Distrust; 12 The Institutional Turn in Professional Ethics; 13 Hospital Ethics; 14 Conflicts of Interest in Medicine; 15 The Privatization of Business Ethics

16 Democratic Theory and Global SocietyCredits; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16212-2

1-280-70227-3

0-511-23101-6

0-511-23176-8

0-511-22939-9

0-511-30869-8

0-511-61742-9

0-511-23023-0

OCLC:

437174965