Simon Robinson

John Strain

In this work, Botin begins by reflecting on the development of electronic records in the Danish healthcare system. Richard Cooper takes the theme of electronic health records into the field of pharmacy. On the face of it both of these would seem to provide a way of improving service. However, the more we use technology the more it is important to examine underlying values and ethical issues, and this leads to an increased focus on developing and maintaining the autonomy and responsibility of the patient or customer. Rolv Blaker, Eileen Nafstad and Norman Andressen then take the focus to psychology. Blaker directly addresses the ideology that may be predominant in a society and thus may be reflected in any professional practice whereas Norman Anderssen and Ingrid Dundas take this further in analyzing underlying ideologies in teaching research methodology in psychology.Hilde Eileen Nafstad in the following chapter takes this theme to a more profound level by focusing on the ideology-based assumptions in research on human suffering, concretized by studies of Post Traumatic Stress Syndromes in relation to war experiences. Simon Robinson invites us to look at the moral context of employability and Elizabeth Ozorak looks at the world-views and values underlying the student experience of 'service' or volunteer learning. Bruce Macfarlane takes the debate further in chapter eight by focusing on the academic profession and the idea of academic citizenship. Derek Sellman takes this theme and applies it to the profession of nursing while Joan Whitman Hoff in her chapter takes us into what still for many people is uncharted ethical territory, the world of IT as it used in teaching. Suzy Jagger's chapter focuses on the teaching of computer ethics. Like Sellman she wants to focus on the moral development of the students and looks to how this might be charted.Development, ethical development or any other, involves change and John Strain considers whether we ought to take history more seriously in the ethical education. In an age which is persistently confronted with innovation, it is understandable that ethics is regarded as something that people will find compelling on account of its innovative character. This book then argues that Applied and Professional Ethics is not to be confined to any predetermined shape. Along with the dilemmas and the theories there are those underlying values and world views that are of equal importance in creating ethos and community, and in enabling creative response. Such values are there at the heart of virtue ethics. Because of the plurality of the educational and professional community, values and perspectives and assessments of values differ and thus dialogue is at the heart such ethics.This book suggests that the teaching of Applied and Professional Ethics has to engage at all these levels, and thereby both take seriously all aspects of ethics, for living and working. All of these chapters began their life as either keynote lectures or papers at the Second International Conference on Teaching Applied and Professional Ethics in Higher Education, the 'Real World - Real People Conference: Ethics in a Virtual World' , London, 30th August to September 1st, 2005.

Ethics for Living and Working

Excerpt from The Institution of Civil Engineers: The Second Frame Thomson Lecture: Friday, 26th April, 1912; The Principles and Practice of Accountancy in Relation to Engineering Design and Work The first lecture, dealing with commercial and technical relations of engineering design and work, showed that the lecturer was not merely content to point the road to success, but, by examples from his own life's work, showed how he had achieved it. Such a lecture could not fail to bring out the characteristics of the lecturer, enterprising, painstaking, and, above all, thorough; and with that perfervidum ingenium Scotorum which has brought success to so many of his countrymen throughout the world, and he (the Chairman) was sure that in the lecture to which they were about to listen, those characteristics would be as much in evidence as ever. The Chairman then called upon Mr. Frame Thomson to deliver the second lecture of his foundation on "The principles and practice of Accountancy in relation to Engineering design and work." Mr. Frame Thomson: - My first duty this year is the painful one of recalling the sad death of Sir James Inglis, Past Pres. Inst. C. E., who, himself an old student, took the greatest interest in, and contributed many and useful suggestions towards, the foundation of this series of lectures. Those who were present at the inaugural lecture in 1911 will remember the genial and friendly remarks in which he encouraged the students to increase the efficiency of their technical acquirements by some familiarity with the commercial practice and principles of those with whom their profession brings them into contact. A pathetic interest has been given to that occasion by the fact that it was the last time Sir James took the chair at a meeting in the Institution. His loss leaves a blank in the circle of those to whom the students of the Institution could look with confidence for support and guidance, a blank which it will be hard for any of his successors to fill with equal devotion and personal interest. In the opening lecture last year it was pointed out that the object of the series is to direct the attention of the students to the various feature of commercial knowledge which will be found useful by them in the practice of their profession. It is obviously impossible that annual lectures should treat of the minute detail of each of the subjects to be touched upon. Such details, both of practice and principle, can be studied in all great centres of population by means of the classes provided by educational institutions of many kinds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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