Against the Grain: New Approaches to Professional Ethics

by Michael Goldberg

This book challenges current thinking on professional ethics and suggests new ways of looking at ethical issues. The contributors to the volume (Michael Goldberg, Richard P. Vance, Deborah Fernhoff, Nancey Murphy, Theophus H. Smith, Jack L. Sammons Jr., William H. Willimon, and Senator John C. Danforth) are outstanding representatives of their respective professions. In this book, using the categories of religion and narrative as methodological tools, they move readers to a more responsive, hopeful, and truthful conduct of the professions.

204 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

About the author

Michael Goldberg is a nationally-acclaimed writer and speaker. He has held two university chairs in religious studies, worked with an international strategic management consulting firm, served as a professional ethicist with the Georgia Supreme Court as well as with various hospital ethics committees, and as an ordained rabbi, provided support to religiously-diverse patients and their families as an ICU and hospice chaplain.

Goldberg completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Yale received his Ph.D. in systematic theology and philosophy of religion from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Reviews

[Michelle Tejada · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some interesting sections but overall went on too long.