The Eye Of The Ethics

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. The author, a Professor of Optometry with qualifications in law and experience in ethics, has written a unique book that gives the practitioner and student a solid foundation in the ethics of eye care practice. All optometrists need to be able to show an appropriate professional attitude to patients and colleagues, and to display an awareness of the legal, ethical and commercial constraints within which optometry operates, including legislation relating to the use and supply of ophthalmic drugs. This book will help you achieve those objectives. Each chapter contains many examples, both real and hypothetical cases, and exercises based on situations in which optometrists and eye care practitioners may find themselves during routine practice. A key focus is on developing both the knowledge and the skills of the student and practitioner to deal with these situations. Comprehensive, practical and illustrated with lively cartoons, Ethics for the Eye Care Professional will be the first port of call for both students and practitioners looking for a grounding in the ethical issues applying to practice. Provides a strong, relevant and up-to-date grounding in ethics as it applies to eyecare practice Helps give students the skills they need to tackle the ethical issues they will encounter within their professional life Focussed on practical problem solving with many cases studies to help understanding References recent events and real life histories and experiences Designed to encourage the development of critical thinking and ethical skills Authoritative text by a Professor of Optometry with qualifications in and knowledge of law and ethics Lively and accessibly written, with cartoon illustrations throughout.

Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Christopher Wright examines a theological, social, and economic framework for Old Testament ethics, exploring themes in relation to contemporary issues: economics, the land and the poor, politics and a world of nations, law and justice, society and culture, and the way of the individual.

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

"This volume examines afresh the various ways in which the introduction of ancient and Arabic optical theories transformed thirteenth-century thinking about vision, how scientific learning came to be reconciled with theological speculation, and the effect these new developments had on those who learned about them through preaching. At the core of this collection lies Peter of Limoges's 'Tractatus moralis de oculo', a compilation remarkable for subsuming science into the edifice of theology and glossing the physiology of the eye and theories of perception in terms of Christian ethics and moralization, making esoteric learning accessible to the public (including artists) through preaching. Transgressing traditional boundaries between art history, science, literature, and the history of religion, the nine essays in this volume complicate the generally accepted understanding of the impact science had on thirteenth-century visual culture."--

In this book, Dr. Tom Harbin outlines the many reasons medical professionals should pay more attention to those forgotten principles.

My research focuses on how feelings and thoughts about ethics are created or constructed with imagistic materials such as painting, photography, or film. While the matter of ethics has been deeply examined from the metaphysic point of view, relatively few have studied the subject by looking at the images themselves. My research methodology is to focus on visual materials in order to observe how ethics is involved in forming how we turn our gaze on others. First, I trace Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, including its vast collection of images in the form of maps, histories, figures, and myths of the various regions in the Renaissance. Cosmographia was designed to help readers experience the divinity of God, which meant the absolute morality of the Renaissance, by seeing the diversity of God's creations through images made by highly skilled artists of the era such as Holbein the Younger. In particular, I examine how Renaissance artists transformed the abstract idea of goodness into a realistic visual order of it through accurate depictions of the world as the creation of God; further, I trace how this accurate or realistic visual knowledge eventually weakened belief in morality, contrary to what these artists intended. Second, in contrast to the Cosmographia, I examine Caesare Lombroso's claim in the late nineteenth century that evil was innate, which he tried to prove scientifically with visual materials or evidence such as photography. I focus on El Atlas Criminal de Lombroso (The atlas of the criminal) along with L'uomo Delinquent (Criminal man), a visual atlas of immorality containing images of "bad" people such as prisoners, whom Lombroso predetermined to be the opposite of "good" citizens in order to support his theory. Third, I trace how Lombroso's imaginative science of criminality, coupled with people's imaginary typological views of others flowing in cultural memory, was further refined through accurate, verifiable, and standardized procedural methods such as Alphonse Bertillon's identification system. I focus on how these refined systems transformed the matter of ethics into technologies that can be processed massively and efficiently without the delays caused by emotional fluctuations associated with ethical conflicts. Finally, I examine how the Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky in his film Solaris attempted to restore the old masters' views from the Renaissance to contemporary society without relying on ethical emotion.

This work focuses on one of ethics' most insidious problems: the inability to make clear and consistent choices in everyday life. The practical tools and techniques in this book can help readers design a set of personal standards, based on sound ethical reasoning, for reducing everyday compromises.

"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.