COVER -- Working Ethics: How to be Fair in a Culturally ComplexWorld -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction -- Part One Seeking Ethical Values for the Professions -- 1 Sources of Guidance and the Basis of Ethics -- Different sources -- Views on the relationship between ethics and law -- Views on the relationship between ethics and religion -- What non-religious bases of ethics are there? -- Intuitions as the basis of ethics -- Emotions as the basis of ethics -- Questions -- Notes -- 2 Seeking a Foundation for Ethics in the Professions -- Can any source or foundation of ethics be established as the true one? -- Implications for ethics in the professions 1 -- Is there a correct and true account of what is right and wrong? -- Implications for ethics in the professions 2 -- The appropriate foundation for ethics in the professions -- Questions -- Notes -- 3 Values Integral to the Role of Professions -- How should values be related to professional practice? -- Questions -- Notes -- Part Two Exploring Values -- 4 Seeking the Best Results -- Producing benefits and preventing harm -- Promoting people's well-being -- Assessing probabilities -- Setting up rules of thumb for seeking the best results -- Ethical obligations that can conflict with seeking the best results -- Questions -- 5 Treating People Justly and Fairly 1 The Principle of Justice and the Fairness of Compensating Disadvantages -- The principle of justice as fairness -- Identifying differences that - from the point of view of justice and fairness - justify treating people differently -- Taking into account differences in the advantages and disadvantages that people experience -- Implications for professional practice -- Questions -- Note -- 6 Treating People Justly and Fairly 2 Taking into Account What People Deserve and Their Entitlement, Needs and Capacities.

Taking into account differences in what individuals deserve -- Taking into account differences in individuals' entitlement -- Taking into account differences in what individuals need -- Taking into account differences in individuals' capacities -- The importance of transparency in professional practice -- Questions -- Note -- 7 Respecting Autonomy -- What is meant by autonomy? -- Respecting autonomy in professional practice -- The autonomy of professionals -- Questions -- Notes -- 8 Acting with Professional Integrity -- Having the appropriate expertise, powers and resources, and complying with professional standards -- Respecting confidentiality -- Respecting privacy -- Being truthful -- Working for the best interests of the people who use professional services -- Questions -- Notes -- Part Three Applying Values to Practice -- 9 A Framework for Ethical Thinking in the Professions -- The usefulness of a framework of principles -- Appealing to principles -- Making ethical decisions -- Can professionals do without principles? -- Questions -- Notes -- 10 Dealing with Dilemmas -- What is a dilemma? -- Seeing dilemmas as irresolvable -- Ways of addressing dilemmas -- Ethically appraising a situation -- Regret and blame -- Questions -- Notes -- 11 Blame -- When are people morally blameworthy? -- What does 'fulfilling their ethical obligations to the best of their ability' entail for professionals? -- Questions for a debriefing process -- Questions -- 12 Rights -- Different sorts of rights -- Reasons for professionals to think in terms of principles and obligations, rather than 'moral rights' -- Understanding rights claims -- Questions to ask about rights claims -- Question -- Postscript -- REFERENCES -- FUTHER READING -- INDEX.