ABSTRACT
As we shall discover, most dictionaries define ethics as ‘dealing with what is good or bad, right or wrong’. When applied to professions, ethics is concerned with ‘moral duties or obligations’ – what the professional ought to do in any given situation: the principles of conduct or standards of professional behaviour. Although professional ethics might appear special it is, in effect, merely a narrow description of the kind of ‘moral conduct’ considered ‘right’ or ‘good’ when applied to people in general.
