unit 4 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Define profesion
In Latin word "professio" was the public statement of what one is and what one's intentions are. Its distinctive feature is the public commitment to serve a social purpose.
COMPONENTS OF THE PROFESSIONS: (3)
1. INTELLECTUAL: specific knowledge acquired through regulated learning. 2. ORGANISATIONAL: own organisation, with Professional Associations and associations that control the professional practice. 3. MORAL: professional ethics that expands ethics and current legality.
Define moral
A set of rules that apply in everyday life and are used continuously by all citizens, as a result of human nature and cultural evolution. These rules guide each individual, orienting their actions and judgments about what is right or wrong, that is, good or bad within a scale of values shared by the social group. It is the presupposition and condition of all ethics.
Define ethics
Science that studies the principles that should govern human behavior when trying to explain moral rules. These explanations are: ▪ Rational. ▪ Based. ▪ Scientific. ▪ Theoretical. It can be said that ethics is the theoretical explanation of morality, which even helps to define our own criteria about what happens around us.
What are the types of ethics? (4)
- professional
- daily
- personal
- social
Define deontologia
Treaty of the duties. This is the science that deals with the set of duties and ethical principles that concern each profession, trade or work environment. Deontology establishes the rules that govern conduct and performance in the professional sphere. ❑ Applied to the field of morality. ❑ Approved by a group of professionals. ❑ Required of professionals. ❑ Actions not subject to the control of the current legality. ❑ Control by the professional associations. Deontological codes. ❑ Between morality and law
Define professional ethics
Set of ethical rules applied in the development of a work activity. They are
deontological codes or professional codes where ethics is reflected through principles
and values contained in the postulates that constitute the deontological code.
• Professional ethics set guidelines for the performance of the functions of a
position within an ethical framework.
• It uses universal human values, and how they apply to the work environment.
Examples of professional ethics?
Professional ethics are important when conflicts arise between work, my or
others’ interests and my personal ethics.
1.- Have the necessary skills to develop the position or work function.
2.-Management responsible for labour information:
To the company’s personnel.
Before external personnel.
3.-Professional secrecy
4.- Respect between colleagues.
5.- Social inclusion as a regular practice.
Honesty in the handling of information and knowledge of contacts.
Social responsibility (not what may harm others)
9.- Care of the environment.
Two phases of professional ethics development?
1st.- Within the profession: drawn up by and for doctors without taking other opinions into account. Valid until the last decades of the 20th century. 2nd.- Prepared with the participation of observers and professional groups. This public movement is the one that has given origin to the current Bioethics.
Two phases of professional ethics development: within the professional?
1.- Medical prayers.
Prayer of Maimonides.
2.- Professional oaths: solemn commitment formulas that consecrate the life of the
professional to certain ideals.
3. deontological codes: En la tradición occidental aparecen en la Edad
Contemporánea. In the western tradition they appear in the
Contemporary Age.
Two phases of professional ethics development: within the professional - professional oraths?
• Hippocratic Oath: appears in the “Hippocratic Corpus”. Little follow-up by the
ancient doctors. Christian ethics adapted it and introduced new ideas of charity
and fraternity. It imposes a principle of paternalistic beneficence.
• Oath of initiation: Hindu text. 1st century A.C.
• Oath of Asaf: Jewish text. 6th century B.C.
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