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Research in professional ethics is a fairly new field of ethics, which is concerned with the values which govern the professions and provides us with the theoretical framework for dealing with issues which arise in the context of the professions.
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Kalokairinou, E. (2016). Professional Ethics. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_351
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