Spirit of Mexico

The spirit of Mexico: a decade on.

www.thelancet.com Published online November 16, 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61893-6 1 November, 2014, marks the 10th anniversary of the Mexico Ministerial Summit on Health Research, attended by 20 ministers of health and delegations from 51 countries. Convened by the Government of Mexico, the Global Forum for Health Research, and WHO, the Summit endorsed the role of knowledge f...

Strong in body and spirit: lifestyle intervention for Native American adults with diabetes in New Mexico.

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of a culturally appropriate diabetes lifestyle intervention for Native Americans on risk factors for complications of diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A nonrandomized, community-based diabetes intervention trial was conducted in three Native American sites in New Mexico from 1993-1997. Participants were assigned to intervention or control based on commu...

Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad

The Spirit of Teaching

The Spirit of Logotherapy

The aim of this paper is to adduce the meaning of Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy and existential analysis—the spirit of logotherapy—in the two-fold sense of its core teachings, as well as its emphasis on the spiritual dimension of the human person. Firstly, I situate Frankl’s tri-dimensional ontology—his philosophical anthropology—within a Platonic perspective, asserting that it was Plato who firs...