Contents Introduction by DAVID CARR Part 1: Virtue, practical wisdom and moral psychology in professional practice Chapter 1: Why you cannot regulate for virtuous compassion, by PAUL SNELLING Chapter 2: Thin 'thank you's': resentment and gratitude in homecoming rituals, by NANCY SHERMAN Chapter 3: Role duties, role virtues, and the practice of business, by MIGUEL ALZOLA Chapter 4: Practising professional ethical wisdom: the role of 'ethics work' in the social welfare field, by SARAH BANKS Chapter 5: Attachment, detachment and indifference in clinical practice, by PETER TOON Part 2: The social, historical and institutional context of virtuous professional practice Chapter 6: Creating regulatory environments for practical wisdom and role virtues in medical practice, by JUSTIN OAKLEY Chapter 7: Progress in nursing ethics: something old, something new. , by ANN GALLAGHER Chapter 8: Organizations, character, virtue and the role of professional practices, by GEOFF MOORE Chapter 9: The institutional framework of professional virtue, by ANNE-MARIE SØNDERGAARD CHRISTENSEN Chapter 10: Character in the British army: A precarious professional practice, by DAVID WALKER Part 3: Learning professionally virtuous character: research and development Chapter 11: Experienced UK nurses and the missing U-curve of virtue-based reasoning, by JINU VARGHESE AND KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON Chapter 12: Beyond research ethics: How scientific virtue theory reframes and extends responsible conduct of research, by ROBERT T. PENNOCK Chapter 13: Transformation needs an agent: Preparing senior professional practitioners to nurture character, virtue and professionalism in their supervisees, by DELLA FISH AND LINDA DE COSSART Chapter 14: Practitioner research, practical wisdom and teaching, by WOUTER SANDERSE Chapter 15: Why is there lack of growth in character virtues? An insight into business students across British business schools, by YAN HUO AND KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON Postscript by DAVID CARR Index.