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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511231768
  • 9780511231766
  • 0511231016
  • 9780511231018
  • 9780511617423
  • 0511617429
  • 9780521838306
  • 0521838304
  • 1107162122
  • 9781107162129
  • 1280702273
  • 9781280702273
  • 0511229399
  • 9780511229398
  • 0511308698
  • 9780511308697
  • 0511230230
  • 9780511230233
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Restoring responsibility.DDC classification:
  • 174 22
LOC classification:
  • JA79 .T575 2005eb
NLM classification:
  • 2004 L-710
  • BJ 1725
Other classification:
  • 08.38
  • CC 7200
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. Demands of Institutional Politics: 1. The problem of many hands -- 2. The responsibility of advisers -- 3. Bureaucracy and democracy -- 4. Judicial responsibility -- 5. Representatives in the welfare state -- Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure: 6. Democratic secrecy -- 7. Mediated corruption -- 8. Election time -- 9. Hypocrisy and democracy -- 10. Private life and public office -- Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility: 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 society.
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.
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Collection of previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Demands of Institutional Politics: 1. The problem of many hands -- 2. The responsibility of advisers -- 3. Bureaucracy and democracy -- 4. Judicial responsibility -- 5. Representatives in the welfare state -- Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure: 6. Democratic secrecy -- 7. Mediated corruption -- 8. Election time -- 9. Hypocrisy and democracy -- 10. Private life and public office -- Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility: 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 society.

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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.

English.

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