Remembering the dead: Change in Protestant Christian tradition through contact with Japanese cultural tradition

The Christian Hippocratic Tradition in Medicine

To some people it may seem anachronistic that the aim of Ethics & Medicine is to ?reassert the Hippocratic consensus in medicine as seen through the lens of the Judeo-Christian tradition.? What is Hippocratic medicine? As Hippocrates once stated, ?The medical art has to consider three factors, the disease, the patient, and the physician. The physician is the servant of his art, and the patient ...

The human embryo in the Christian tradition: a reconsideration.

Recent claims that the Christian tradition justifies destructive research on human embryos have drawn upon an article by the late Professor Gordon Dunstan which appeared in this journal in 1984. Despite its undoubted influence, this article was flawed and seriously misrepresented the tradition of Christian reflection on the moral status of the human embryo.

Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition

Tibet: Landscape of Tradition and Change

Tibetans view the environment as an interrelated balance upon which humans and nature coexist. Overconsumption of resources is discouraged, and the taking of life is forbidden by Buddhist practice. However, as traditional people meet the modern world, checkerboard patterns are carved into forested mountain slopes, pollution runs freely in once pristine waters, erosion lays grasslands bare, and ...

Indo-Portuguese Quilting Tradition: The Cross-Cultural Context