his extensive experience of maladjusted children. There is just one further point which merits comment. In his preface Dr. Burns states that modern psychology and its application in "Child Guidance" meets with less acceptance and understanding among Catholics than others. I am sure, therefore, that he would also wish his readers to know that a Catholic nun, the late Sister Marie Hilda of Glasgo...

Previous studies of the marital fertility transition in Europe have found religious differentials. Using data collected from the population registers of The Hague, our aim in this study is to search for answers to the following questions: whether religious differentials result from socio-economic characteristics; to what extent religious ideology explains the behaviour of religious groups; whic...

We use Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data (n=2,678) to assess the effects of religious denomination and ideology on end-of-life treatment preferences in two hypothetical terminal illness scenarios: physical pain and severe cognitive impairment. We found no statistically significant differences when comparing traditionally defined religious denominational groups (i.e., conservative, moderate, and...

Librarian of the National Library ofWales, and used to illustrate the lecture at Cardiff. The initial article is a scholarly account of Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter, by Margery Rowe and G. E. Trease. To a Welsh reviewer, another pleasing feature of the Transactions is that it has been printed by J. D. Lewis and Sons Ltd., Gomerian Press, Llandysul. They have already done...

BACKGROUND Public trust in immunization is an increasingly important global health issue. Losses in confidence in vaccines and immunization programmes can lead to vaccine reluctance and refusal, risking disease outbreaks and challenging immunization goals in high- and low-income settings. National and international immunization stakeholders have called for better monitoring of vaccine confidenc...

BACKGROUND In the 19th century, eminent French sociologist Emile Durkheim found suicide rates to be higher in the Protestant compared with the Catholic cantons of Switzerland. We examined religious affiliation and suicide in modern Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal. METHODS The 2000 census records of 1,722,456 (46.0%) Catholics, 1,565,452 (41.8%) Protestants and 454,397 (12.2%) ind...

Kobuchi-Philip, Mana. 2010. Indeterminate Numeral Quantifiers, ‘Some’ and ‘Many’ Readings, and Questions in Japanese. Korean Journal of Linguistics, 35, 503-530. The Japanese indeterminate numeral quantifier (WH-CL) can directly combine with a quantificational particle ka or mo, forming, e.g., nan-nin-ka ‘what-CLperson-KA’ or nan-nin-mo ‘what-CLperson-MO’. This paper focuses on the empirical ev...

Legalisation of assisted suicide presents a dilemma for society. This arises because of a lack of consensus regarding the precedence to be accorded freedom of choice versus the inviolability of human life. Several factors including improvements in medical technology, population ageing and changing perceptions about quality of life serve to make a re-examination of attitudes to this issue approp...