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Title: The Future of Professional Ethics
Author(s): CHADWICK, Ruth
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 4    Issue: 4   Date: December 1997   
Pages: 291-297
DOI: 10.2143/EP.4.4.562995

Abstract :
n this article I shall examine the concept of professional ethics with reference to three headings: how we should understand the notion of a profession; how we should characterize the problems of professional ethics; and whether we should develop professional ethics from a standpoint internal or external to the profession. I shall then proceed to speculate on the future of professional ethics with reference to each of these headings, having regard to the trends identified.

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