The connections between science and civic culture in the Victorian period have been extensively, and intensively, investigated over the past several decades. Limited attention, however, has been paid to Irish urban contexts. Roman Catholic attitudes towards science in the nineteenth century have also been neglected beyond a rather restricted set of thinkers and topics. This paper is offered as ...

In order to understand differences in suicide rates between the countries affiliated to the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP), the present paper investigates whether there is a relationship between the existence of religious sanctions and aggregate national suicide rates as reported to the World Health Organization. Through their participation in this study, 49 IASP nation...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the knowledge and acceptance of the public and professionals working in intensive care units regarding organ donation after cardiac death. METHODS The three hospitals with the most brain death notifications in Curitiba were selected, and two groups of respondents were established for application of the same questionnaire: the general public (i.e., visitors of patients in...

Objective. Although an expanding literature on “stratification beliefs” has developed over the past three decades, research has neglected relationships between religion and beliefs about poverty and other inequalities. This study examines the relationship between religious affiliation and “individualistic,” “structuralist,” and “fatalistic” beliefs about the causes of poverty, and compares the ...

For all their interest as social phenomena, nations and nationalism have proven to be difficult terms define, which has resulted in a lack of consensus among scholars working on these subjects. In this paper, it is my intention expose the deep chasm that engulfs our present knowledge about what are. My method for achieving goal comprises critical engagement with most popular definitions based u...