Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dr. Ali Muhammad, 50, a surgeon, spent part of his time operating, part on the telephone attempting to reach his good friend Shahpour Bakhtiar in an effort to halt the shooting. Muhammad was furious at the extent and kinds of injuries he had been treating. "If they do not stop...
By a stroke of irony that he would, no doubt, have relished, Ben Sonnenberg died last September, at age 77, during the New York newspaper strike. Thus he had no obituaries of any size, and his passing, though mourned by friends, made little news. But then, Sonnenberg's profession...
DeNiro, whose most recent performance headlines the award-winning new release, "The Deer Hunter," is cited by the club as the "performer who has made the most outstanding contribution to the entertainment profession during the past year."
DEREK BOK HAS CHOSEN to emphasize professional ethics, the academic study of how moral principles can be applied to situations that arise in professional life. Professional ethics are, almost by definition, situational: they teach one how to react to moral dilemmas, how best to conduct oneself in a given set of circumstances. They rarely, however, strike at basic, absolute moral principles of right and wrong--they lay out the accepted lines of conduct, but rarely examine the difference between what is accepted and what is right. They set the standards of a profession, but they cannot set the guidelines...
A: I must explain my position on this. The political questions of fighting, violence, revolution--these are not my profession. I think that violence in politics is a very hard thing; it leads to a very large portion of blood, death and so on.