Ethics Teaching in Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Teaching of Ethics in the American Undergraduate Curriculum, 1876–1976

   1. The Teaching of Ethics in the American Undergraduate Curriculum, 1876–1976

      • Douglas Sloan

      Pages 1-57

3. General Issues in the Teaching of Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Goals in the Teaching of Ethics

      • Daniel Callahan

      Pages 61-80

   3. Problems in the Teaching of Ethics: Pluralism and Indoctrination

      • Ruth Macklin

      Pages 81-101

   4. What Does Moral Psychology Have to Say to the Teacher of Ethics?

      • Thomas Lickona

      Pages 103-132

   5. Evaluation and the Teaching of Ethics

      • Arthur L. Caplan

      Pages 133-150

4. The Teaching of Ethics in the Undergraduate and Professional School Curriclum

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. The Teaching of Ethics in American Higher Education: An Empirical Synopsis

      • Hastings Center Staff

      Pages 153-169

   3. The Teaching of Undergraduate Ethics

      • Bernard Rosen

      Pages 171-189

   4. The Teaching of Ethics in Undergraduate Nonethics Courses

      • Susan Resneck Parr

      Pages 191-203

   5. Professional Ethics: Setting, Terrain, and Teacher

      • William F. May

      Pages 205-241

5. Topics in the Teaching of Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Paternalism in Medicine, Law, and Public Policy

      • Dennis F. Thompson

      Pages 245-275

   3. Whistleblowing and Professional Responsibilities

      • Sissela Bok

      Pages 277-295

6. Summary Recommendations on the Teaching of Ethics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297

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   2. Hastings Center Project on the Teaching of Ethics: Summary Recommendations

      • Daniel Callahan, Sissela Bok

      Pages 299-302

7. Back Matter

   Pages 303-315

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A concern for the ethical instruction and formation of students has always been a part of American higher education. Yet that concern has by no means been uniform or free from controversy. The centrality of moral philosophy in the undergraduate curriculum during the mid-19th Century gave way later during that era to the first signs of increasing specialization of the disciplines. By the middle of the 20th Century, instruction in ethics had, by and large, become confined almost exclusively to departments of philosophy and religion. Efforts to introduce ethics teaching in the professional schools and elsewhere in the university often met with indifference or outright hostility. The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the interest in the teaching of ethics, at both the undergraduate and the professional school levels. Beginning in 1977, The Hastings Center, with the support of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, undertook a system­ atic study of the state of the teaching of ethics in American higher education.

• Religion
• ethics
• moral philosophy
• morality

• The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson, USA

  Daniel Callahan, Sissela Bok

Policies and ethics