Front Cover -- Conscience, Leadership and the Problem of 'Dirty Hands' -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Authors -- Introduction to the Volume -- Revisiting the Concept of a Profession -- Introduction -- Some Definitions of a Profession -- An Ideal of Service within a Generalised Responsibility to the Public Good -- Professional Virtues -- Fiduciary Obligation -- What Has This Survey Shown? -- How Meanings Function -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Dirty Hands and Commissions of Inquiry: An Examination of the Independent Local Government Review Panel in NSW, Australia -- Commissions and Inquiries: Definitional Ambiguities and Ethical Dimensions -- Two Types of Commission Scholarship -- NSW Independent Local Government Review Panel (ILGRP) -- Dirty Hands and Commissions of Inquiry: Two Questions of Eligibility -- Dirty Hands, Commissions of Inquiry and the ILGRP -- Outside Morality? Political Realism and Determinatio -- Inside Morality: Virtue Ethics -- The Complicity of Citizens -- Describing the Circumstances that Call for Dirty Hands: Wallis (2013) -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- What Human Rights Aren't for: Human Rights Function as Moral, Political and Legal Standards - but not as Intervention-Condi... -- Introduction -- The Many Possible Functions of Human Rights -- Standards: Moral, Political, Legal and Coercive -- Human Rights Are Not Intervention-Conditions -- The UN Charter -- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- The Responsibility to Protect -- The Chinese Position -- The United Nations Security Council and Resolution 1973 -- Why Is This So? Following the 'Logic of Rights' -- Conclusion -- References -- Even Dirtier Hands in War: Considering Walzer's Supreme Emergency Argument -- Reconsidering the Supreme Emergency Argument -- Notes -- References.

Keeping Hands Clean in War: The Double-Effect Approach to Killing -- Military Ethics and the Doctrine of Double-Effect: A Re-Evaluation -- Intentions and Side-Effects -- Wartime Killing and DDE -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- The Dirty Hands and Pure Hearts of Revolutionary Leaders: Love and Hate in Jesus and Che Guevara -- The Leader/Leadership Circle -- Christic Context and Texts -- Christ's Dirty Hands -- Christ's Leaderly Legacy -- Ernesto Guevara -- Conclusion: 'Text without Context is Pretext' -- Notes -- References -- Friendship, Love and Politics -- Introduction -- Sceptical Assessments of Friendship within Politics -- Politics and Friendship in the Contemporary Western Context -- Friendship: A Model for Political Community or a Political Relationship? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- An Examination of the Principles-Based Ethics by which Red Cross Personnel Evaluate Private Donor Suitability -- Humanitarian Background -- Red Cross and Red Crescent History -- Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement -- Case Studies -- Solomon Islands -- Nigeria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Unpacking the Beliefs and Attitudes of Australian HREC Members: An Examination of Influences on Reviewer Decision-Making -- Introduction -- The Relationship between Beliefs and Attitudes -- Understanding Reviewer's Beliefs -- Ethics Reviewer Beliefs and Review Practice -- Current Research -- Conclusion -- References -- Keeping Hands Clean and Patients Safe: How to Regulate Conscientious Objection of Roman Catholic Doctors -- Common Approaches to a Right to Conscientiously Object -- The Compromise or Moderate Approach -- Cooperation in Wrongdoing -- Conscience Clauses -- Shortcomings of the Conscience Absolutism Approach and of the Incompatibility View Approach -- A New Solution -- Notes.

Acknowledgments -- References -- The Virtuous Physician? Towards a Renewed Hippocratic Ethics -- Introduction -- History of the Hippocratic Oath -- Perceived Problems with the Oath -- Conclusion: Renewing the Hippocratic Tradition -- References -- Quandary in Utopia -- References.