Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rebecca L. Walker and Philip J. Ivanhoe -- Caring as relation and virtue in teaching / Nel Noddings -- Professing medicine, virtue based ethics, and the retrieval of professionalism / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Doctoring and self-forgiveness / Jeffrey Blustein -- Virtue ethics as professional ethics: the case of psychiatry / Jennifer Radden -- Trust, suffering, and the Aesculapian virtues / Annette C. Baier -- Environmental virtue ethics / Rosalind Hursthouse -- The good life for non-human animas: what virtue requires of humans / Rebecca L. Walker -- Law, morality, and virtue / Peter Koller -- Virtue ethics, role ethics, and business ethics / Christine Swanton -- Racial virtues / Lawrence Blum -- Virtue and a warrior's anger / Nancy Sherman -- Famine, affluence, and virtue / Michael Slote -- Filial piety as a virtue / Philip J. Ivanhoe.

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