Familial Integrity
Familial Integrity

Author: Beverly Brightstar

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1622330013

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"It is our sincere hope that this book will mark a turning point in the spiritual evolution of this planet and its restoration to the galactic lineage of nations to which you belong. Make no mistake, this book has the power to change lives -- and Earth history, if you will let it!" -- The Sirian Council of 12 through Beverley Bright Star Familial Integrity is a series of diverse, exciting stories designed to unlock hidden pathways within the reader to reawaken ancient knowledge buried deep within the group consciousness of humanity. These stories explore in depth the concept of familial integrity, the moral foundation for the inhabitants of many other advanced planets and higher dimensions. This idea does not limit itself to the conventionally conceived family unit, but instead promotes harmony within the entire Earth family. When you learn to see all of humanity as your brothers and sisters, you can no longer let anyone starve or deny them adequate food or housing. You cannot cheat, lie, and steal from anyone -- let alone kill them -- when you fully acknowledge them as your own flesh and blood, the family members they truly are. This book outlines the necessary changes that humankind must make for the coming new age in practical ways that can be applied in our daily lives. When the principles of familial integrity are widely accepted, they will serve as a catalyst for global change among individuals and nations, bringing stability, peace, and love to the entire planet.

Ethical Judgments
Ethical Judgments

Author: Stephen W. Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-12

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 150990414X

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This edited collection is designed to explore the ethical nature of judicial decision-making, particularly relating to cases in the health/medical sphere, where judges are often called upon to issue rulings on questions containing an explicit ethical component. However, judges do not receive any specific training in ethical decision-making, and often disown any place for ethics in their decision-making. Consequently, decisions made by judges do not present consistent or robust ethical theory, even when cases appear to rely on moral claims. The project explores this dichotomy by imagining a world in which decisions by judges have to be ethically as well as legally valid. Nine specific cases are reinterpreted in light of that requirement by leading academics in the fields of medical law and bioethics. Two judgments are written in each case, allowing for different views to be presented. Two commentaries - one ethical and one legal - then explore the ramifications of the ethical judgments and provide an opportunity to explore the two judgments from additional ethical and legal perspectives. These four different approaches to each judgment allow for a rich and varied critique of the decisions and ethical theories and issues at play in each case.

Family Ethics
Family Ethics

Author: Julie Hanlon Rubio

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2010-03-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 158901667X

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How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic theology of marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played out: the family. Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep connections within the family and help families live out their calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that most Christians can live out their faith—and contribute to progress in the world.

The Patient in the Family
The Patient in the Family

Author: Hilde Lindemann Nelson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-22

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1317857062

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The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the structure of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families when medical advances extend life but not vitality.

Raising Kids with Character
Raising Kids with Character

Author: Elizabeth Berger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780742546356

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Raising Kids with Character shows parents, clinicians, and policy-makers how the love relationship between parents and children is the workshop of the child's maturing personality, connecting everyday moments in family life to the growth of the child's sense of values and meaning. The book explains how children develop into fine, morally strong adults through their identification with loving parents, and combines practical wisdom about ordinary family experiences with an in-depth discussion of emotional development from birth through adulthood. Elizabeth Berger, MD, is a child psychiatrist and nationally acclaimed parenting expert. Her book looks beyond the parent's response to "negative behavior" to understand the meaning of the child's behavior within the growth process, while helping parents gain mastery of their own emotional reactions as a key to assisting this process. Rich vignettes of ordinary families, along with professional case studies of trouble youngsters in therapy, make this intelligent and well-written book the essential tool for parents and others looking not just to "manage" children but to understand and to nurture their spirits.

Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases
Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases

Author: Bernice Elger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1317141458

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Following the boom in population databases in recent years there has been sustained and intense international debate about political processes and legal and ethical issues surrounding the protection and use of genetic data. As a result, several national and international organizations and committees have published widely differing guidelines and statements concerning genetic databases and biobanks. Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases compares the new area of biobanking with the tradition of ethically accepted classical research and highlights the distinctive features of existing databases and guidelines. The volume identifies areas of consensus and controversy while investigating the challenges posed to classical health research ethics by the existence of genetic databases, analyzing the reasons for such varying guidelines. The book will be essential to academics, biobankers, policy-makers and researchers in the field of medical ethics.

Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics
Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

Author: Mark J. Cherry

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1402022247

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Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself. This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.

ETs on Earth, Volume 2
ETs on Earth, Volume 2

Author: Robert Shapiro

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 162233003X

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Coloring book of line drawings derived from the twenty solar glyph paintings by Mary Fran Koppa. The solar glyph found somewhere in each picture holds the energy for the day. For children of all ages. Use your imagination and have fun coloring each one!

First Contact
First Contact

Author: Tom T. Moore

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1622330048

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This book will assist you with your ascension process. These are glorious times indeed, and as you raise frequency and let go of the past, a new you is emerging. You are not alone in this process, and many intelligences, energies, and friends are supporting you and your purpose. We are part of this support team, and as you reach new heights, so do we. We ascend just as you do to higher and higher frequencies and more glorious light. Please join us in this adventure. Since you have free will, you control your part in this project. Sometimes it may seem that you have no choice in this endeavor, but you have. From the higher levels, you have all chosen to ascend. St. Francis

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the (Im)Possibility of Global Bioethics

Author: J. Tao Lai Po-wah

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 940171195X

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The contributions to this volume grew out of papers presented at an international conference Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, held in Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, between 25-28 May 1999. The conference was organized by the Centre for Comparative Public Management and Social Policy, and Ethics in Contemporary China Research Group, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. The conference brought together scholars from east and west to investigate the challenges to caring and to traditional moral authorities that would confront bioethics in the third millennium. They explored the implications of moral loss and moral diversity in post-traditional and post-modern societies, and how these would shape the character of medical care and bioethics discourse in the new era. A proceedings volume under the same title of Individual, Community & Society: Bioethics in the Third Millennium, was published in May 1999 for the conference meeting.