Religion in Public Spaces: A European Perspective

Marginal public spaces in European cities

Social paediatrics and child public health--a European perspective.

Why we need social paediatrics The past 20 years have produced dramatic changes in the configuration of Europe and the health of our children. While important progress has been made in areas such as neonatal and intensive care, treatment of malignancy, and transplant surgery, paediatricians enter the new millennium knowing that many children are increasingly disadvantaged by the social and poli...

A European perspective on wild game meat and public health.

This paper presents information on wild game meat from the public health and inspection perspectives, taking as a starting point the preparation and final adoption of European Union Directive 92/45/EEC on public health and animal health problems relating to the killing of wild game and the marketing of wild game meat. National definitions of small and large 'game' and the distribution and popul...

Religion and Faith: A Decision Theory Perspective

We examine the implications of decision theory for religious choice and evangelism, under the assumption that people choose their religion. The application of decision theory leads us to a broad definition of religion and a particular definition of faith, each related to the uncertainty associated with what happens to a person after death. We examine two extremes: total ambiguity and no ambigui...

Psychiatry and religion: a general psychiatrist's perspective

psychiatrists any attempt to explore the nature of this relationship is regarded as an irrelevant luxury and religious belief may be ignored or even pathologised. These considerations may partly explain why most psychiatrists do not readily discuss their own religious belief even when it is a profound expression of their person ality or cultural background and may influence their approach to me...