Unit 6 - Professional Ethics

Question 1

A common feature of professions. For example, only pharmacists can dispense prescription drugs.

Answer 1

Certification

Question 2

The _______ is a term which originally meant everyone outside the religious clergy, but has come to refer to all non-professionals. From a doctor’s perspective, everyone outside the medical profession is the _______; from a lawyer’s perspective, everyone outside the legal profession is the _______, and so on.

Answer 2

Laity

Question 3

List the necessary features of professions.

Answer 3

1. Extensive training
2. Provide important services
3. Training and skills are largely intellectual and they apply specialized knowledge

Question 4

List the common features of professions.

Answer 4

1. Usually licensed/certified
2. Usually represented by organizations
3. Usually autonomous

Question 5

When an insider reports or publicizes the wrongdoing of a corporate or government organization.

Answer 5

Whistleblowing