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SISSELA BOK On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation By the Author of LYING Sthecees hevivae_ Peter few, (894 SECRETS ALSO BY SISSELA BOK Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life A Strategy for Peace SISSELA BOK SECRETS On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation VINTAGE BOOKS A Division of Random House, Inc. New York Vintage Books Edition, December 1989 Copyright © 1983, 1989 by Sissela Bok All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1983. Since the copyright page cannot accommodate all permissions acknowledgments, they appear on the following pages. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bok, Sissela. Secrets: on the ethics of concealment and revelation. Reprint. Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1983, cl982. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Secrecy— Moral and ethical aspects. 1. Title. BJ1429.5.B641984b 177 83-19767 ISBN 0-679-72473-7 (pbk.) Manufactured in the United States of America 109876 PERMISSION S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: American Association for the Advancement of Science: Excerpt from “The Human Study of Human Beings” by Margaret Mead, from Science, vol. 133 (January 20, 1961). Copyright © 1961 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Reprinted by permission of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. American Bar Association: For permission to adapt material from ‘““The Sound of Professional Suicide” by Louis Clark, from Barrister Magazine, vol. 5, (Summer 1978), published by the Young Lawyers Division of the American Bar Association. Copyright © 1978 by the American Bar Association. Reprinted by permission of the American Bar Association. American Psychiatric Association: Excerpt from article “Denial and Affirmation in Illness and Health” by Arnold R. Beisser, from The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 136, no. 8 (1979). Copyright © 1979 by the American Psychiatric Association. Doubleday & Company, Inc.: “Willie Fryer,” adapted from excerpt from Children’s Secrets by Thomas J. Cottle. Copyright © 1980 by Thomas J. Cottle. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and A. M. Heath & Company Ltd.: Excerpts from Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., A. M. Heath & Company Ltd., the estate of the late Sonia Brownell Orwell, and Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. Harvard Business Review: Excerpt from “Trade Secrets: What Price Loyalty?” by Michael S. Baram, from Harvard Business Review (November/December 1968). Copyright © 1968 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, all rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the Harvard Business Review. Harvard University Press: Excerpt from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica by Hesiod, trans. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914. Reprinted by permission of Harvard University Press, and the Loeb Classical Library, and the translator. Also, excerpt from Robert eae Letters and Recollections, eds. Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner 1980). Houghton Mifflin Company: Excerpt from An Anthropologist at Work, ed. Margaret Mead. Copyright © 1959 by Margaret Mead. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company. The Journal Press: Excerpt from “The Facts of Observation in Psychoanalysis” by vi Permissions Acknowledgments Siegfried Bernfeld, from Journal of Psychology, vol. 12 (1941). Reprinted by permission of The Journal Press. Little, Brown & Company: First stanza of #1663 from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Copyright 1914, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown & Company. The New American Library, Inc.: Excerpt from An Enemy of the People from Henrik Ibsen, The Complete Major Prose Plays, translated by Rolf Fjelde. Copyright © 1965, 1970, 1978 by Rolf Fjelde. Reprinted by arrangement with The New American Library, Inc., New York. University Books, Inc.: Excerpt from The Book of the Dead, ed. Sir Wallis Budge. Copyright © 1960. Published by University Books by arrangement with Lyle Stuart. Reprinted by permission of University Books, Inc. World Medical Journal: Excerpt from 1949 Code of Medical Ethics of the World Medical Association, from Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 1979. Reprinted by permission of the World Medical Journal. se SB eea nemone ids ies
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