The practice of medicine by clergymen aroused considerable anger in early seventeenth-century England. This has frequently been noted by historians but the nature of the critique has been obscured by inattention to the religious character of the attack. Clerical practitioners are often depicted as being so widespread in early modem England that they constituted a "dominant group in the medical ...

While American Catholics stand out as some of the few voices of cultural opposition to the eugenics movement in the United States, Catholics and eugenicists actively engaged in conversational exchanges during the late 1920s. In association with the Committee on Cooperation with Clergymen of the American Eugenics Society, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper engaged in a process that Sander G...

SIR—A Korean supreme patriarch died a natural death at 81 years. An author died aged 27 years. Does longevity vary with occupation? We have studied longevity in different occupations in Korea by examining obituary notices in newspapers. We classified socially prominent occupations into 11 groups and investigated 2,143 cases. Because of small numbers, we excluded soldiers, doctors and policemen....

Rinderpest is caused by a morbillivirus closely related to the measles and canine distemper viruses. The pathology and symptomatology of the three diseases are very similar,1 but in terms of mortality, rinderpest is by far the most lethal; in European cattle the death rate often exceeds 80 per cent. The disease was eradicated in Europe over a hundred years ago, but in the eighteenth century an ...

BACKGROUND The author prospectively examined the power of persistent dissociation in predicting acute and chronic posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSD) in psychologists, psychotherapists, crisis intervention teams and clergymen after a disaster. METHODS 135 psychosocial disaster workers were assessed (6 weeks and 6 months after the catastrophe) with the Acute Stress Disorder Scale (AS...

Abstract Recent work has emphasized the role of colonial state structures in construction and enforcement race gender British Empire from seventeenth century onward, particularly among people color. But on parallel phenomenon “Whiteness” focused White men rather than women children, elites those below them, North America Caribbean. This article, using records a “Clergy Fund” established Jamaica...

The main topic of this article is the theme Mary in Kazania Świętokrzyskie – oldest known monument Polish language. Undoubtedly, 13th century theologians attached high importance and a significant role to Virgin Christianity. collection sermons was an opportunity present universe which Mother God key figure, would reflect intellectual trends time. However, for some reason or reasons, it did not...

Background: The clergy plays an important role in the care of mentally ill people developing countries because predominant belief that supernatural factors are responsible for mental illness and spiritual healers sought by and/or their relatives treatment. This study aimed to assess clergymen’s beliefs about etiology treatment illnesses southwest Nigeria.
 Methods: was qualitative design e...