Restoring responsibility : essays on ethics in government, business, and healthcare /

Restoring responsibility : essays on ethics in government, business, and healthcare /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thompson, Dennis F (Dennis Frank), 1940-
Corporate Author:	J. Gregory Dees Memorial Collection
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005
Subjects:	Business ethics Medical ethics Political ethics Responsibility Ethics, Professional Delivery of Health Care > ethics Ethics, Institutional Social Responsibility

Table of 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