What Should Professional Societies Do About Ethics?
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering
Volume 110, Issue 2
Abstract
Professional self‐regulation has come under rather close scrutiny by the Courts during the past 20 yr. Various morally‐founded bases for this scrutiny are identified and discussed. Since one of the purposes of some self‐regulatory restrictions had been to protect the well‐being and safety of the public, avenues for working toward this objective within the law are suggested.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
References
1.
Bayles, M. D., Professional Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing, Belmont, Calif., 1981.
2.
Bierig, J. R., “Whatever Happened to Professional Self‐Regulation?,” American Bar Journal, Vol. V, No. 69, May, 1983.
3.
Bork, R., “The Rule of Reason and the Per Se Concept: Price‐Fixing and Market Division,” The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 74, No. 5, 1982.
4.
Chafee, Z., “Private Associations,” The Harvard Law Review, 1930.
5.
Frankel, M., Chalk, R., and Chafer, S. (eds.), AAAS Professional Ethics Project, Dec., 1980.
6.
Gert, B., The Moral Rules, Harper and Row, New York, 1966.
7.
Goldman, A., The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics, Bowman and Littlefield, Totowa, N.J., 1980.
8.
Hastings Center Reports, Vols. 12 and 13, Hastings‐on‐Hudson, N.Y.
9.
Howe, J. T., and Badger, L. J., “The Anti‐Trust Challenge to Non‐Profit Certification Organizations,” Washington University Law Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2, 1982.
10.
Kant, I., Foundations for the Metaphysics of Morals, tr. Ellington, Hackett Pbl., Indianapolis, Ind., 1981.
11.
Morgan, John T., “Anti‐Trust and State Regulation,” Arkansas Law Review, Vol. 35, 1982.
12.
Posner, R., Anti‐Trust Law, University of Chicago Press, 1976.
13.
Schaub, J. H., and Pavlovic, K., Engineering Professional Ethics, John Wiley and Sons, New York, N.Y., 1983.
14.
(unsigned), “Engineers Can Learn Fairness from Architects,” Engineering News Record, May 11, 1939.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering
Volume 110 • Issue 2 • April 1984
Pages: 88 - 99
Copyright
Copyright © 1984 ASCE.
History
Published online: Apr 1, 1984
Published in print: Apr 1984
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.