
Secrets
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Permissions Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter I - Approaches to Secrecy
- The Gift of Pandora
- Defining Secrecy
- The Secret and the Unknown
- Secrecy and Privacy
- Chapter II - Secrecy and Moral Choice
- A Thought-Experiment
- The Need for Secrecy
- The Dangers of Secrecy
- Moral Considerations
- Chapter III - Coming to Experience Secrecy and Openness
- The Self Among Others
- Confronting Secrets From the Outside
- Having Secrets
- Discretion and Moral Judgment
- Chapter IV - Secret Societies
- Groups Sworn to Secrecy
- Initiation
- Blind Obedience
- Chapter V - Secrecy and Self-Deception
- Misleading Oneself
- Attributing Self-Deception
- The Plea of Self-imposed Ignorance
- Ignorance, Error, Bias, and Avoidance
- Chapter VI - Confessions
- The Act of Confessing
- The Listener
- The Revealer
- Revealing the Secrets of Others
- Chapter VII - Gossip
- Definitions
- Reprehensible Gossip
- Trivializing Gossip
- Chapter VIII - Secrecy, Power, and Accountability
- The Shared Predicament
- Power and Secrecy
- Individual and Collective Secrecy
- Publicity
- Chapter IX - The Limits of Confidentiality
- The Professional Secret
- Justification and Rationale
- Individual Clients and Their Secrets
- Secrecy as a Shield
- Chapter X - Trade and Corporate Secrecy
- Protection Against Betrayal and Theft
- Borrowed Finery
- The Scope of Corporate Secrecy
- Chapter XI - Secrecy and Competition in Science
- Rituals of Openness
- Temporary Protection of Ongoing Research
- Secrecy and the Results of Research
- Chapter XII - Secrets of State
- Reason of State
- Administrative Secrecy
- Negotiations
- Disinformation
- Chapter XIII - Military Secrecy
- Confounding One's Enemies
- Self-Defeating Military Secrecy
- Secrecy, Power, and Transformation
- The Role of Public Debate
- The Pentagon Papers
- Chapter XIV - Whistleblowing and Leaks
- Revelation from Within
- Blowing the Whistle
- The Leak
- Individual Moral Choice
- Organizational Change and Social Policy
- Chapter XV - Intrusive Social Science Research
- A Prophecy for Social Science
- Sharing the Wait for the End of the World
- To See Through and to Unmask
- Restraints
- Combating Corruption Through Research
- Chapter XVI - Investigative Journalism
- Limits to Probing?
- Exposing Private Lives
- The Public's Right to Know
- Reporters in Disguise
- Chapter XVII - Undercover Police Operations
- Secrecy in Police Work
- The ABSCAM Investigations
- The Rationale for Undercover Investigation of White-Collar Crime
- Limits and Alternatives
- Chapter XVIII - Conclusion
- Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright
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