Ethics Across the Professions: A Reader for Professional Ethics

by Clancy Martin, Wayne Vaught, Robert C. Solomon

The most up-to-date professional ethics reader available, Ethics Across the A Reader for Professional Ethics, Second Edition, analyzes the complex ethical issues that arise in such fields as engineering, finance, healthcare, journalism, and law. Featuring a wide array of both classic and contemporary sources, it ranges from works by Aristotle and Kant to selections by Michael Bayles, Sissela Bok, Paul Ekman, and Thomas Nagel. The book is organized topically and includes detailed chapter introductions, several practical case studies at the end of each chapter, and provocative discussion questions. The second edition includes reading and discussion questions for each article, fifteen new articles, five new cases, and an expanded chapter on philosophical ethics, including feminist ethics.

Genres: Philosophy

521 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Clancy Martin (PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2003) is Professor of Philosophy at University of Missouri-Kansas City. He works on nineteenth century philosophy, existentialism, moral psychology, applied ethics, and Buddhism.

Clancy’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine (where he is a contributing editor), The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Review of Books, GQ, Esquire, Ethics, The Times Literary Supplement, Vice (where he is a contributing editor), The London Times, Australian Financial Times, The Dublin Times, Details, New York, Elle, The Harvard Advocate, The Columbia Journalism Review, Bookforum, and many other publications. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, including Portuguese, Korean, and Mandarin. In 2009 and 2015 Kansas City's The Pitch named Clancy their "Best Author of the Year."

Reviews

[chelsea hilbrand]

read for school.

[Denise Dupree · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was pretty informative. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the different perspectives and cases in ethics. I am considering keeping this one instead of selling it when the new semester starts. The only thing I would change is that I wish it had an index and/or a glossary. For someone who is relatively new to the study of philosophy and ethics, an index would have been helpful when looking for specific terms I was unfamiliar with. For this same reason, a glossary would have been helpful.

[Kyle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for a college ethics course