Working Virtue Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems [Hardcover]

Working Virtueis the first substantial collective study of virtue theory and contemporary moral problems. Leading figures in ethical theory and applied ethics discuss topics in bioethics, professional ethics, ethics of the family, law, interpersonal ethics, and the emotions.

1. Introduction,Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe
2. Caring as Relation and Virtue in Teaching,Nel Noddings
3. Professing Medicine, Virtue Based Ethics and the Retrieval of Professionalism,Edmund D. Pellegrino
4. Doctoring and Self-Forgiveness,Jeffrey Blustein
5. Virtue Ethics as Professional Ethics: The Case of Psychiatry,Jennifer Radden
6. Trust, Suffering, and the Aesculapian Virtues,Annette C. Baier
7. Environmental Virtue Ethics,Rosalind Hursthouse
8. The Good Life for Nonhuman Animals: What Virtue Requires of Humans,Rebecca L. Walker
9. Law, Morality, and Virtue,Peter Koller
10. Virtue Ethics, Role Ethics, and Business Ethics,Christine Swanton
11. Racial Virtues,Lawrence Blum
12. Virtue and a Warrior's Anger,Nancy Sherman
13. Famine, Affluence and Virtue,Michael Slote
14. Filial Piety as a Virtue,Philip J. Ivanhoe

From the many authors that make upWorking Virtuecomes a wealth of knowledge that can help a generation of professional people who seek to be informed by ethical theory and guided by ethical principle. --Feminist Review

This interesting collection of essays on virtue theory at work represents a valuable contribution to a relatively new paradigm of moral inquiry. --S.A. Mason,CHOICE