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2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A Study of the Moral Foundation of Profiessional Ethics

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17520020
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Philosophy/Ethics
Research InstitutionKumamoto University

Principal Investigator

TANAKA Tomohiro  Kumamoto University, Faculty of Letters, professor (90295288)

Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2007
Keywordsprofession / semi-profession / the social status of the professionals / moral foundation / autonomy / professionalization / nurse / engineer
Research Abstract

I examined the character of the Profession at the first year of this research(2005). To achieve such purpose, First, I examined the research on the Profession that had been developed in sociology. Next, I observed the general character and the definition of the Profession. The conversion from "Status profession" to "Occupational profession" possesses great Significance when seeing from the history of the professional conception.
During second period of this research(2006),I took up the technological profession (engineer) and the medical profession, and considered about the profession by a concrete context. However, the definition of the Profession is not so clearer than it is talked in general. For example, the engineers and nurses who try to change the professional status higher in society have been rolled in the difficulty that social acknowledgment doesn't advance.
In the final period of this research(2007),I set up the following two questions. First, it is a question about the social status of the profession and its reason. Concretely, I explored it by examining the development of the medical professions in modern Britain (Comparison with the sociological approach by Carr-Saunders and the historical approach by Perkin, H.). The second question is concerning the professional autonomy. I analyzed the doctors as an example. The doctor's autonomy can be understood as follows : 1. freedom that doctor arbitrarily selects treatment policy, 2. normative attitude according to law, morality, and collective restrictions.
This research examined the following as a whole to consider the moral foundation of the professional ethics : the character of the professions, profession and semi-profession, professionalization, professional autonomy and the social status of the professions. And, I clarified that the professional ethics was given its role in a social-moral relationship and the social approvals.

  • Research Products

    (15 results)

All 2008 2007 2005

All Journal Article (7 results) Book (8 results)

  • [Journal Article] Frontier of Economical Ethics.2007

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      (Kyoto, Nakanishiya Shuppan) 175

      Pages: 32-59

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Engineering Ethics : Joint of Applied Ethics.2007

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      (Tokyo, Rikoutosho) 158

      Pages: 42-49, 77-92

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Destination of the Self-determination Theory : From the Field of Philosophy Law, Medicine.2007

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Fukuoka, Kyushudaigaku Shuppankai 311

      Pages: 213-235

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Corporate Ethics, joint-translation of "Ethical Theory and Business."2005

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Kyoto Koyou Shobou 318

      Pages: 189-220

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Life, Information and Machine.2005

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      (Fukuoka, Kyushudaigaku Shuppankai) 235

      Pages: 173-194

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Taking Life and Death Seriously : Bioethics from Japan.2005

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      (Amsterdam, Elsevier) 235

      Pages: 253-273

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Economy : Lectures on Applied Ethics.2005

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Tokyo, Iwanami Shoten 300

      Pages: 209-241

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] On Working2008

    • Author(s)
      Tanaka, Tomohiro
    • Publisher
      Tokyo Minerva Shobou(forthcoming)
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 『経済倫理のフロンティア』2007

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      175(32-59)
    • Publisher
      ナカニシヤ出版
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 『工学倫理-応用倫理学の接点』2007

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      158(42-49,77-92)
    • Publisher
      理工図書
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 『自己決定論のゆくえ-哲学・法学・医学の現場から』2007

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      311(213-235)
    • Publisher
      九州大学出版会
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 『企業倫理学1』2005

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      318(189-220)
    • Publisher
      晃洋書房
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 『生命・情報・機械』2005

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      235(173-194)
    • Publisher
      九州大学出版会
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] TAHING LIFE AND DEATH SERIOUSLY-BIOETHICS FROM JAPAN2005

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro Tanaka
    • Total Pages
      335(253-273)
    • Publisher
      Elsevier
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] 『岩波応用倫理学講義第四巻経済』2005

    • Author(s)
      田中 朋弘
    • Total Pages
      300(209-241)
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2010-02-04  

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