This second edition of Professions in Ethical Focus comprises over seventy-five readings complemented by twenty case studies with corresponding discussion questions. These resources are organized into several thematic units, including “conflicts of interest,” “honesty, deception, and trust,” “privacy and confidentiality,” and “professionalism, diversity, and pluralism.” An alternative table of contents is also provided, identifying readings that bear on particular professions such as engineering, journalism, medicine, law, and policing. The book’s introductory unit offers short selections from classic and contemporary ethical theory, including non-Western traditions. All of the readings have been introduced by the editors and carefully excerpted for relevance, always with the needs of student readers in mind.

• Contents, Organized by Profession
• Preliminaries: Why Study Professional Ethics?
• Fritz Allhoff, Jonathan Milgrim, and Anand J. Vaidya, “Volume Introduction”
• Unit 1: Ethical Principles and Practice
• Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim)
• 1.Robert Audi, “Some Approaches to Determining Ethical Obligations”
• 2.Immanuel Kant, “Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals”
• 3.John Stuart Mill, “Utilitarianism”
• 4.Virginia Held, “The Ethics of Care as Moral Theory”
• 5.Daryl Koehn, “What Can Eastern Philosophy Teach Us about Business Ethics”
• 6.Thaddeus Metz, “Toward an African Moral Theory”
• 7.Yuri Cath, “Reflective Equilibrium”
• 8.John P. Anderson, “Sophie’s Choice”
• Case Study: Anna M. Kietzerow, “The Trolley Problem”
• Case Study: Rebecca Kates, “Alligator River Story”
• Unit 2: Professions and Professional Ethics
• Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim)
• 1.Ernest Greenwood, “Attributes of a Profession”
• 2.Don Welch, “Just Another Day at the Office: The Ordinariness of Professional Ethics”
• 3.John T. Sanders, “Honor Among Thieves: Some Reflections on Professional Codes of Ethics”
• 4.Michael Davis, “Professional Responsibility: Just Following the Rules?”
• 5.Avery Kolers, “Am I My Profession’s Keeper?”
• 6.Bob Brecher, “Against Professional Ethics”
• Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, “Determining Professional Authority: The Canadian Amber Light Case”
• Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, “Refusing to Work: Weighing Patient Safety Against Long Hours”
• Unit 3: Professional Responsibility
• Introduction (Jonathan Milgrim and Fritz Allhoff)
• 1.Bowen H. McCoy, “The Parable of the Sadhu”
• 2.Josie Fisher, “Social Responsibility and Ethics: Clarifying the Concepts”
• 3.Simon Robinson, “The Nature of Responsibility in a Professional Setting”
• 4.Sissela Bok, “Whistleblowing and Leaks”
• 5.Theodore L. Glasser, “Objectivity Precludes Responsibility”
• 6.Michael Pritchard, “Responsible Engineering: The Importance of Character and Imagination”
• 7.Kenneth Kipnis, “Ethics and the Professional Responsibility of Lawyers”
• 8.Kathy Fitzpatrick and Candace Gauthier, “Toward a Professional Responsibility Theory of Public Relations Ethics”
• Case Study: Joanne Lau, “The West Gate Bridge: Who Was Responsible?”
• Case Study: Dale Brown, “Snowden, Security, and Civil Liberties: The Ethics of Whistleblowing”
• Unit 4: Conflicts of Interest
• Introduction (Fritz Allhoff and Alexander Hoffman)
• 1.Neil R. Luebke, “Conflict of Interest as a Moral Category”
• 2.Michael Davis, “Conflict of Interest Revisited”
• 3.Andrew Stark, “Comparing Conflict of Interest Across the Professions”
• 4.Catherine Gowthorpe and Oriol Amat, “Creative Accounting: Some Ethical Issues of Macro- and Micro-Manipulations”
• 5.Judith Lichtenberg, “Truth, Neutrality, and Conflict of Interest”
• 6.Neil R. Luebke, “Conflict of Interest in Engineering”
• 7.Stephen Coleman, “Conflict of Interest and the Police: An Unavoidable Problem”
• 8.Fritz Allhoff and Jonathan Milgrim, “Conflicts of Interest and the Presidency”
• Case Study: Fritz Allhoff, “Pharmaceutical Payments and Opioid Prescriptions”
• Case Study: Alexander Hoffman, “The Sandusky Assault”
• Unit 5: Honesty, Deception, and Trust
• Introduction (Fritz Allhoff and Jonathan Milgrim)
• 1.Harry Frankfurt, “On Truth, Lies, and Bullshit”
• 2.Jonathan E. Adler, “Lying, Deceiving, or Falsely Implicating”
• 3.Patricia H. Werhane, “The Ethics of Insider Trading”
• 4.Andreas Eriksen, “What is Professional Integrity?”
• 5.Lori Robertson, “Ethically Challenged”
• 6.David C. Thomasma, “Telling the Truth to Patients: A Clinical Ethics Exploration”
• 7.David Geronemus, “Lies, Damn Lies and Unethical Lies: How to Negotiate Ethically and Effectively”
• 8.Christopher Nathan, “Liability to Deception and Manipulation: The Ethics of Undercover Policing”
• Case Study: Daniel J. Wirth, “Earnings and Ethics: Thinking about Enron”
• Case Study: Pat Lin, “The Ethics of Bluffing: Oracle’s Takeover of PeopleSoft”
• Unit 6: Privacy and Confidentiality
• Introduction (Anna Bates)
• 1.Adam D. Moore, “Privacy: Its Meaning and Value”
• 2.Mary Beth Armstrong, “Confidentiality: A Comparison across the Professions of Medicine, Engineering, and Accounting”
• 3.Dennis F. Thompson, “Privacy, Politics, and the Press”
• 4.Bruce M. Landesman, “Confidentiality and the Lawyer-Client Relationship”
• 5.Lee A. Pizzimenti, “Informing Clients about Limits to Confidentiality”
• 6.Kenneth Kipnis, “A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality”
• 7.Bo Brinkman, “An Analysis of Student Privacy Rights in the Use of Plagiarism Detection Systems”
• 8.Ira S. Rubinstein and Nathaniel Good, “Privacy by Design: A Counterfactual Analysis of Google and Facebook Privacy Incidents”
• Case Study: Aaron Quinn, “Breaking a Promise to Prevent a Lie”
• Case Study: Erika Versalovic, “To Share or Not to Share: When Patient Confidentiality and Physician’s Duties to Protect Conflict”
• Unit 7: Professionalism, Diversity, and Pluralism
• Introduction (Jill Gatfield)
• 1.Carina Fourie, Fabian Schuppert, and Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, “The Nature and Distinctiveness of Social Equality”
• 2.Anita M. Superson, “A Feminist Definition of Sexual Harassment”
• 3.Caitlin Flanagan, “The Problem with HR”
• 4.Ronald Dworkin, “Why Bakke Has No Case”
• 5.Clarence Thomas, “Fisher v. University of Texas concurrence”
• 6.John Corvino, “‘Under God’s Authority’: Professional Responsibility, Religious Accommodation, and the Culture Wars”
• 7.Michael S. Merry, “Should Educators Accommodate Intolerance: Mark Halstead, Homosexuality and the Islamic Case”
• 8.Thomas A. Hemphill and Waheeda Lillevik, “U.S. Pharmacists, Pharmacies, and Emergency Contraception”
• Case Study: Wally Siewert, “The Schiavo Case and End-of-Life Decisions”
• Case Study: T.J. Broy, “Religious Commitments in the Workplace”
• Unit 8: Professionalism in a Global Context
• Introduction (Kyle J. Yrigoyen and Anand J. Vaidya)
• 1.Vivian M. Weil, “Professional Standards: Can They Shape Practice in an International Context?”
• 2.Thomas Donaldson, “Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home”
• 3.Curtis E. Clements, John D. Neill, and O. Scott Stovall, “The Impact of Cultural Differences on the Convergence of International Accounting Codes of Ethics”
• 4.Michael Perkins, “International Law and the Search for Universal Principles in Journalism Ethics”
• 5.Andrew Boon and John Flood, “Globalization of Professional Ethics? The Significance of Lawyers’ Professional Codes of Conduct”
• 6.Hengli Zhang and Michael Davis, “Engineering Ethics in China”
• 7.Ndungi wa Mungai, Gidraph Wairire, and Emma Rush, “The Challenges of Maintaining Social Work Ethics in Kenya”
• 8.Nurbay Irmak, “Professional Ethics in Extreme Circumstances: Responsibilities of Attending Physicians and Healthcare Providers in Hunger Strikes”
• Case Study: Jonathan Milgrim, “Standing on Principle: Tech Workers Refusing Projects with Military Applications”
• Case Study: Chad Watson, “Rights and Responsibility: Arrests of International Journalists”
• Unit 9: Client-Based Professions
• Introduction (Luke Golemon and T.J. Broy)
• 1.Michael Bayles, “The Professional-Client Relationship”
• 2.Edmond D. Pellegrino, “The Virtuous Physician and the Ethics of Medicine”
• 3.Pamela Grace, “Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility”
• 4.Michael Davis, “Is There a Profession of Engineering?”
• 5.Yotam Lurie and Shlomo Mark, “Professional Ethics of Software Engineers: An Ethical Framework”
• 6.Domènec Melé, “Ethical Education in Accounting: Integrating Rules, Values, and Virtues”
• 7.Frederic Reamer, “Social Work Values and Ethics: An Overview”
• 8.Michael Rekark, “Sex-Work Harm Reduction”
• Case Study: Hans Allhoff, “Willful Ignorance and the Limits of Advocacy”
• Case Study: Luke Golemon, “Professional Misconduct While Off-Duty”
• Unit 10: Institution-Based Professions
• Introduction (T.J. Broy and Luke Golemon)
• 1.G.R. Chesley and Bruce Anderson, “Are University Professors Qualified to Teach Ethics?”
• 2.David Resnik, “What Is Ethics in Research and Why Is It Important?”
• 3.David Detmer, “The Ethical Responsibilities of Journalists”
• 4.Patricia Cook, “The Military: A Profession Like No Other”
• 5.Joanne Ciulla, “Leadership Ethics: Mapping the Territory”
• 6.Seamus Miller, “Professional Ethics for Police”
• 7.Kenneth Kipnis, “The Certified Clinical Ethics Consultant”
• 8.Paul Camenisch, “Clergy Ethics and the Professional Ethics Model”
• Case Study: T.J. Broy, “My Lai Massacre: Just Following Orders”
• Case Study: T.J. Broy, “Church Sex Abuse”