TY - BOOK ID - 11339272 TI - Virtue ethics and professional roles AU - Oakley, Justin AU - Cocking, Dean PY - 2001 SN - 0521027292 0511015976 0511047231 052179305X 0511156499 1280433000 0511487118 0511175825 0511325444 1107122120 9780511015977 9780511047237 9780511487118 9781280433009 9780521793056 9780511156496 9780521027298 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Professional ethics. KW - Professional ethics KW - Lawyers KW - Professional-Patient Relations KW - Physicians KW - Virtues KW - Morals KW - Ethical Theory KW - Ethics, Professional KW - Professional Role KW - Health Personnel KW - Ethics KW - Occupational Groups KW - Psychology, Social KW - Delivery of Health Care KW - Interpersonal Relations KW - Role KW - Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services KW - Group Processes KW - Persons KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Health Care KW - Named Groups KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Codes of ethics KW - Codes of professional ethics KW - Ethical codes KW - Professional responsibility KW - Professions KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - #GBIB:CBMER KW - Professional ethics. Deontology KW - General ethics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11339272 AB - Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as virtues in the context of professional roles. Should this disturb us, or is it naive to presume that things should be otherwise? 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. 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. ER -