Healthcare Communication Ethics

Health care communication ethics protects and promotes the good of responsive hope and the good of care for the Other in meeting moments of robust heath, normal difficulties, the tragic, and the inevitable. Arnett, Ronald C.; Fritz, Janie; Bell, Leeanne M. (2008-08-04). Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference (Kindle Locations 3791-3793). SAGE Publications. Kindle Edition. … Continue reading Healthcare Communication Ethics →

Business and Professional Communication Ethics

Business is involved in the continuing to exist, to serve its purpose, knowing its direction, and how to face change. The ethics of communication involve knowing the organization's direction and purpose, and recognizing moments of change to respond to. Once again this chapter, No. 10, looks at its questions through metaphors of communication ethics praxis, … Continue reading Business and Professional Communication Ethics →

Intercultural Communication Ethics: Before the Conversation Begins

Chapter nine takes a look at Culture as the good. We forego considering the individual as primary, and learn about other cultures without presuming they are simply equal. The authors do this through a review of four metaphors of communication ethics praxis: Intercultural Communication Culture Culture Shock The Inarticulate Cultural differences work to provide us … Continue reading Intercultural Communication Ethics: Before the Conversation Begins →

Organizational Communication Ethics: Community of Memory and Dwelling

This chapter, No. 8, considers organizations as "dwelling places" for types of communication, and places to support a certain sense of the good. Once again, the chapter breaks itself down into metaphors of communication ethics praxis -- four this time: Organizational Communication Dwelling Place Organizations and Institutions Community of Memory Within Organizations Organizational communication is … Continue reading Organizational Communication Ethics: Community of Memory and Dwelling →

Interpersonal Communication Ethics: The Relationship Matters

The book has talked a lot about various types of communication. The difference in interpersonal communication, as seen by the authors, is that interpersonal communications concentrates on the relationships between people. This chapter connects the study of interpersonal ethics to communicative practices with attention to the following three metaphors of communication ethics praxis: Interpersonal communication— … Continue reading Interpersonal Communication Ethics: The Relationship Matters →

Public Discourse Ethics: Public and Private Accountability

Okay, we are up to Chapter 6 now, and seem to be hitting a topic that might, just might, have application to the current political season that has started oh so early for the 2016 presidential race. Public discourse ethics protects and promotes a place of conversation for diversity of ideas and persons. Public discourse … Continue reading Public Discourse Ethics: Public and Private Accountability →

Large Tomes and Large Introductions

The main textbook for my Communication Ethics class is a 400+-page book with small print titled "Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach" by Craig E. Johnson. And those 400 pages doesn't include the 30+ pages of brief contents, contents, and introduction. In the introduction I ran across this choice sentence:  "We all pay a high price … Continue reading Large Tomes and Large Introductions →

Communications Ethics: In the Eye(s) of the Theory of the Beholder

Common sense is seen primarily in the judgments about right and wrong, proper and improper, that it makes. Whoever has a sound judgment is not thereby enabled to judge particulars under universal viewpoints, but he knows what is important, i.e. he sees things from right and sound points of view. (Gadamer, 1986, p. 31) Arnett, … Continue reading Communications Ethics: In the Eye(s) of the Theory of the Beholder →