Ethics in Professional Life: Virtues for Health and Social Care

Firmly rooted in practice, this book is a timely exploration of the nature and value of a virtue-based approach to ethics in health and social care. We hear the voices of practitioners and service users speaking about their everyday encounters and ethical challenges, and strategies for cultivating t...

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Main Author: Banks, Sarah (Author)
Contributors: Gallagher, Ann (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: London Macmillan Education UK 2008
In:Year: 2008
Reviews:Book Review: Banks S, Gallagher A 2008: Ethics in professional life: virtues for health and social care. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 267 pp. GBP18.99 (PB) ISBN 978 0 230 507197 (2009) (Stammers, Trevor)
Further subjects:B Nursing Ethics
B Electronic books
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780230507197

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520 |a Cover -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of vignettes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The rationale for the book -- Professional practitioners in health and social care, with particular reference to nursing and social work in Britain -- The virtues and professional life -- Outline of the book -- 1 The domain of professional ethics -- Introduction -- A preview: vignettes from practice -- The nature of professional ethics -- Vulnerability, dependency and power -- The ground of professional ethics: intrinsic goals and service ideals -- Service ideals as regulative, rhetorical and aspirational -- 'Health' and 'social welfare' as regulative ideals -- Concluding comments -- 2 Virtue ethics and professional life -- Introduction -- Virtue theory and virtue ethics -- The early development of virtue ethics -- The decline of virtue ethics -- The renaissance of virtue ethics -- Varieties of virtue ethics -- Virtue ethics as an all-embracing ethical theory -- Virtue ethics as complementary or supplementary to other ethical theories -- Virtue ethics as 'anti-theory' -- Virtues based on human flourishing or motivation? -- Our version of virtue ethics -- Virtue ethics and the professions -- Human flourishing as a key concept for virtue-based professional ethics -- The good life, flourishing, practices and professions -- MacIntyre on 'practices' -- Professions as purposive practices -- Concluding comments -- 3 Virtues, vices and situations -- Introduction -- Virtue and the virtues -- Virtues as character traits -- The nature of character and character traits -- The situationist critique of character and virtue ethics -- The complexity of 'virtue' concepts -- Types of virtues -- Virtues, vices and the doctrine of the mean -- Emotions, 'emotion work' and the virtues -- Which virtues? -- Concluding comments -- 4 Professional wisdom. 
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