Is there such a thing as midwifery ethics? Yes, there is. As human beings (moral agents), midwives are to be ethical, moral, responsible persons and professionals. Midwives work in moral relationships with other persons. They serve by the moral standards of their profession as now embodied in written codes of ethics, a profession that is part of the larger health care profession. As part of the professional world, midwives participate in the general standard that to be professional is to be ethical and to be unethical is to be unprofessional. The professions, in turn, are part of what Erich Fromm calls >human ethics<. If midwives are to be ethical, we suggest they need to understand ethics and to reason morally. Better health care for all is the result.
The main purpose of this paper is to found an educational basis of consumer education in the Japanese school system. The basis will be formed by what is called >consumption ethics<. Recently it has been pointed out that society has to re-evaluate its value judgements of daily life. Education has the ability to influence future generations' global awareness. The steps towards improving our crisis situation must begin with a combination of consumer education and environmental education. The function of education cannot be emphasized enough in that it has the ability to alter morals, values, ways of thinking and the social system. But the goal of saving our lives cannot be actualized without real ideas. Hence there is a need to establish >consumer ethics<. These new ideas should be based on the establishment of >consumption ethics<.
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Olympia: a study in perversion – a psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of Edouard Manet's painting
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Gender as contradiction
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Patients’ dreams and analysts’ dreams about patients are assumed to reflect each analytic participant's attitude and psychic conduct toward the other, and an unconscious overlapping of psychic issues and struggles between them as well. This makes it possible to deal with dreams from one-person and two-person models of psychological functioning, as well as from an additional psychic dimension that is assumed to be a creation of the analysis itself. As a source of freely moving experience within both participants, one that is assumed to have a life and direction of its own, this latter dimension of analysis permits patient and analyst to undergo more freely the actual experience of the treatment as a modality that is separate from and prior to positivistically grounded determinations that can be made about either the patient or analyst individually, or about the two of them jointly. This dimension of analysis is said also to reflect a holism that characterizes conscious and unconscious psychoanalytic experience. Dreams and unconsciously generated dreamlike clinical phenomena are presented to try to illustrate this holistic character of analytic work, and to show how either participant's psychic productions maybe used to evoke significant experiences and further clinical knowledge.