Restoring responsibility
Subtitle: ethics in government, business, and healthcare
By: Dennis F. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Political ethics; Medical ethics; Business ethics; Responsibility
Description: Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index