1. At some point, the duty to report wrongdoing may even cause the ethicist to risk his or her job.“ John A. Robertson, ”Clinical Medical Ethics and the Law: The Rights and Duties of Ethics Consultants,“ Ethics Consultation in Health Care,eds. John C. Fletcher, Norman Quist, and Albert R. Jonsen (Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration, 1989) 168. NB: Lots there on duties; nothing on rights I could make out.
2. The tradition’s roots certainly include Kant’s efforts at “transcendental deduction” of the conditions allowing for perceived experience and Descartes’ derivation of personal existence from the fact of posing the question.
3. Lon L. Fuller, The Morality of Law ( New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964 ).
4. Reprinted in Benjamin Freedman and Bernard Baumrin, eds., Moral Responsibility and the Professions ( New York: Haven, 1984 ) 79–84.
5. Benjamin Freedman, “A Meta-Ethics for Professional Morality,” Ethics 89 (1978): 1–19; see further Benjamin Freedman, “What’s Really Special about Professional Ethics: Response to Michael Martin,” Ethics 91 (1981): 626–630.