[BOOK][B] Professional responsibility: the fundamental issue in education and health care reform
DE Mitchell, RK Ream - 2014 - Springer
There is much debate in the American society about the proper roles of the government and
the market in organizing economic life. Far less attention is accorded to the world of
organizations that live in the interstices between government agencies and profit-seeking
corporations. These include the organizations John Maynard Keynes (1926/2004)
characterized as “semi-autonomous bodies within the State—bodies whose criterion of
action within their own field is solely the public good as they understand it, and from whose …
the market in organizing economic life. Far less attention is accorded to the world of
organizations that live in the interstices between government agencies and profit-seeking
corporations. These include the organizations John Maynard Keynes (1926/2004)
characterized as “semi-autonomous bodies within the State—bodies whose criterion of
action within their own field is solely the public good as they understand it, and from whose …
Professional responsibility in an age of experts and large organizations
S Brint - Professional responsibility: The fundamental issue in …, 2014 - Springer
The social position of the professions was historically built, in part, on claims to higher
ethical principles than those on which business people relied. This ideology began to wane
in the early twentieth century and by the 1960s was no longer dominant. I argue that that a
coherent and broadly inclusive ideology of professional responsibility cannot be
reconstructed in the twenty-first century. Any effort to do so would require realism about four
decentering elements in the circumstances of professional life:(1) the limited appeal of …
ethical principles than those on which business people relied. This ideology began to wane
in the early twentieth century and by the 1960s was no longer dominant. I argue that that a
coherent and broadly inclusive ideology of professional responsibility cannot be
reconstructed in the twenty-first century. Any effort to do so would require realism about four
decentering elements in the circumstances of professional life:(1) the limited appeal of …