Abstract This study examines how the prosperity gospel has led to an increase in suicide cases Nigeria. Existing literature established links between and exploitation of poor, but finding that establishes is difficult find. The preys upon poor leads people into suicidal desires for lack wealth. In Nigeria, church consistently continued base its preaching on prosperity. When congregants see prom...

Human activity has required, since its origins, stones as raw material for carving, construction and rock art. The study, exploration, use maintenance of building is a global phenomenon that evolved from the first shelters, manufacture lithic tools, to houses, infrastructures monuments. Druids, philosophers, clergymen, quarrymen, master builders, naturalists, travelers, architects, archaeologis...

a relevance extending into more general fields. The headings include?A Community Approach to Preventive Psychiatry, The Psychology of Pregnancy, Early Mother-Child Relationships, and Mental Health Aspects of Family Life. Building on a concept from an earlier work (Emotional Problems of Early Childhood, p. 156) he pays attention to pathogenic forces in the community, together with the traditiona...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third cause of mortality and disability (assessed by DALY) among patients above 60 year old. Severe and very severe COPD (FEV(1) = equal or less than 50% and 30% of expected value, respectively) is estimated at 20% of all COPD patients. Advanced COPD usually leads to physical and mental deterioration, the patients often manage with the problem...

disturbed individuals. Many of Napier's patients believed themselves bewitched or possessed, and although Napier himself used occult procedures in making diagnoses casting horoscopes or conjuring up the Archangel Raphael he approached his patients with a subtle blend of shrewdness and common sense. For Napier, the "supernatural" was just as real as the "natural". Macdonald's discussions of reli...

BACKGROUND Quality- of- life of patients at their last stage of their life are different from that of other people. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the factors contributing to the quality- of- life of patients at their last stage of their life and provide good cares for these patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS This qualitative study was performed by the thematic- framework met...

Increasing evidence indicates that specific neurodevelopmental disorders may be associated with particular patterns of behavior. A description of behavior was included by Langdon Down in the first published description of a specific mental retardation syndrome, Down syndrome (1). In his description, Down observed: ‘‘They have considerable powers of imitation, even bordering on being mimics. The...

There are very few jokes about sociologists. This is frustrating for the sociologists, especially if they compare themselves with their more favored second cousins, the psychologists, who have pretty much taken over that sector of American humor that used to be occupied by clergymen. A psychologist, introduced as such at a party, at once finds himself the object of considerable attention and un...

to the blind, and an arm Avithered and useless for sixteen years suddenly became perfectly whole. Moreover, " we have seen cancers disappear within twenty minutes." We make bold to say at once that, whatever it was that disappeared, it was not cancer, and it is not surprising that these remarkable statements should have produced a large amount of newspaper correspondence from medical and scient...

Despite all the marvelous advancements in modern medicine, traditional medicine has always been practiced. More than 70% of the developing world's population still depends on the complementary and alternative systems of medicine (CAM). Cultural beliefs and practices often lead to self-care or home remedies in rural areas and consultation with traditional healers. Evidence-based CAM therapies ha...