Professing Faith, Professing Medicine: Physicians and the Call to Evangelize

Professing faith, professing medicine: Physicians and the call to evangelize.

THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH TRADITIONALLY ESTABLISHES MEDICINE AS A PROFESSION: A career, or vocation based on the professing of an oath regarding personal and public behavior. For Catholic physicians, the commitments of the Oath of Hippocrates take on new meaning when seen in light of the promises made at Baptism and renewed every Easter. This paper, originally an address to medical students, conside...

Professing Performance: Disciplinary Genealogies

Irrigating with Sugarbeet Professing Wastewater*

In recent years, irrigating agricultural land with wastewater has become a major wastewater management practice. Irrigation has replaced much of the discharge to streams and conventional primary and secondary waste treatment for food processing wastewater (4, 11, 12, 13). Irrigating agricultural land for treatment and disposal of the food processing wastewater is a good practice if the wastewat...

Professing public health nutrition.

Clarity of purpose is essential for a discipline and its profession: to advocate for public and political support; to attract and socialise students and novices. Three seminal contributions to this issue by Roger Hughes will help the international community of public health nutrition to benchmark its development as a subject and profession, related to and yet distinct from public health and hea...

Professing nursing as an emancipatory practice: a response to Betts, C.E., The critical practice of professing nursing: a contribution to the professors of nursing debate, Nurse Education in Practice (2008), doi:10.1016/j.nepr.2008.08.001.

I read with interest the latest instalment in the ongoing debate that followed from Thompson and Watson’s editorial on the role of the professor of nursing (Thompson and Watson, 2006). Betts, who originally penned an editorial in response to theirs, takes issue in his latest paper (Betts, 2008) both with Thompson and Watson and also with my reply to them (Rolfe, 2007). Unsurprisingly, I find my...