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This chapter considers issues and problems that raise questions about good and bad human conduct. Ethics is the study of what constitutes good and bad human conduct, including related actions and values. Ethics is concerned with questions of right and wrong, of duty and obligation, of moral responsibility. Occasionally, the term ethics is used interchangeably with morals.Although this usage is acceptable, it is more accurate to restrict the terms moral and morality to the conduct itself and to use ethics and ethical to delineate the study of moral conduct or the code a person follows. We will focus on ethical issues in the practice of clinical sociology and the variety of contexts in which clinical sociologists practice.
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Bruhn, J.G. (1991). Ethics in Clinical Sociology. In: Rebach, H.M., Bruhn, J.G. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Sociology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3782-3_7
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