Loading…

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

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 misc...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thompson, Dennis F. (Dennis Frank), 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
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.