This contemporary, comprehensive, and practical text helps you discover and determine your own guidelines for helping within the broad limits of professional codes of ethics and divergent theoretical positions. This text is the relied-upon, essential text for students in any helping field-the book many students return to well into their professional careers. The authors raise what they consider to be central issues, present a range of diverse views...

"In this new study, Mike W. Martin rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals. Using examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, teaching, journalism, engineering, business, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work." "By taking personal commitments seriously, Martin vastly expands professional ethics to include neglected issues about moral psychology,...

A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics. The book explains the American culture wars and refutes the "New Atheists."

The subject of reconciling our evolutionary past with our sense of right and wrong is undergoing a resurgent wave of interest. The timely Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics offers the first general introductory text to this area, presenting students with three different areas of ongoing research related to evolution and morality: cognitive psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics. The text is divided into two sections. Part I explores the cognitive...