Professional Responsibility and Opportunities for Applied and Clinical Sociologists

Training Sociologists: Professional Socialization and the Emergence of Career Aspirations

Organizational Authority and Professional Responsibility in Clinical Sociology

When, if ever, are clinical sociologists justified in accepting the directives of employers and management sponsors as setting the parameters within which they proceed with their work? In particular, is it ever permissible for clinical sociologists to accept an employer's or a manager-sponsor's definition of a problem to be studied, even though they may not view it as the more fundamental probl...

Duty hours and professional responsibility.

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 803. Dear Colleagues, By the time you read these lines, a new cohort of medical graduates will have begun their residencies in family medicine and other specialties. Your College is one of the organizations represented on a steering committee addressing resident duty hours, hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with f...

Error, blame, and professional responsibility.

It has become common knowledge that health care takes place in complex settings that are fraught with the potential for error. More than this, it is becoming a commonplace understanding that error will occur in hospitals, and that some of those errors will inflict harm on patients and their families. The Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human, describes error as involving multiple aspects...

Applied and Professional Ethics

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...