Professionals today wield an enormous public power.
Collectively, their decisions affect the patient's plight, the
client's fate, the student's future, the city's scape, the Earth's
sustainability, the worker's fair treatment, and the durability of
institution's great and small. Yet professionals do not perceive
themselves as power wielders. They feel beleaguered, marginal,
insufficiently appreciated, often under siege. Thus they tend to
obscure for themselves their obligation to the common good. This
book explores eight professions as they struggle with their double
identity--as a means to livelihood and as a "common calling in the
spirit of public service." An interpretation of American culture
emerges from its pages, as social critic William May opens up the
ways in which each profession answers to something deep in the
American spirit.
General
Imprint: |
Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2001 |
First published: |
June 2005 |
Authors: |
William F. May
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-664-22671-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Business & Economics >
Business & management >
Business ethics
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LSN: |
0-664-22671-X |
Barcode: |
9780664226718 |
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