title: 'What is professional ethics?'.
abstract: The very term 'professional ethics' is puzzling with respect to what both 'professional' and 'ethics' might mean. I argue (1) that professionalism is ambiguous as to whether or not it is implicitly committed to ethical practice; (2) that to be 'professionally' ethical is at best ambiguous, if not in fact bizarre; and (3) that, taken together, these considerations suggest that professional ethics is something to be avoided rather than lauded.
authors.affiliation: University of Brighton, UK.
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brecher
mesh_terms: D032781:Codes of Ethics; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D000068616:Professionalism
keywords: Codes; ethics; morality; professional; professional ethics