Professor Terrell and Mr. Wildman have earned our gratitude with their sober, thoughtful, lucid, and honest contribution to the ongoing discussion of professionalism. They have examined the problems with a sharp and critical eye, placed them in a social and historical perspective, and offered modest but genuinely helpful suggestions for solving them. They are quite free from the obfuscation and bombast that often appear when people address this difficult subject. Best of all, they have resisted the temptation to draw an invidious distinction between a profession and a business - a distinction that is often presented in ways that no business person from Lee Iaccoca to the corner grocer can fail to find offensive.

But in the end, they fail to develop a fully satisfactory theory of professionalism. The reason is that they, have bought into the primary source of all the difficulties—the privatization of morality.