OBJECTIVE To describe the development and implementation of a safer conception service in a resource-limited setting. METHODS Qualitative work to inform the design of a safer conception service was conducted with clients and providers at Witkoppen Health and Welfare Centre, a primary health center in Johannesburg, South Africa. Services began in July 2013 for HIV-affected participants plannin...

Eli Hirsch argues that certain ontological disputes involve a conflict between “equivalent” languages, and the principle of charity compels each disputant to interpret other as speaking truly in their own language. For Hirsch, language's semantics maps sentences (in context) onto sets possible worlds but assigns no role reference. I argue this method leads an overly uncharitable portrayal at is...

TWO BROAD DOMAINS OF PERSONALITY Cognitive Abilities and Noncognitive Traits The entire human personality can be roughly divided into two domains, the noncognitive (or conative) and the cognitive. The first domain includes the personality traits (personality in the narrower sense of meaning), self-concept, self-esteem, well-being, emotionality or affect, motivation, and coping; the second domai...

BACKGROUND The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice. From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. A literature search on nurses' self-understanding in a psycho-social perspective yields no results. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate personal and professional experiences that may have formed the self-...

This paper forms the foundation for the promotion of mental health with rural Mi’kmaq youth through a community based participatory research project. Western understandings of mental health and illness are compared and contrasted with Aboriginal understandings. Mainstream mental health services that accommodate cultural differences do not speak to the totality of Aboriginal understandings of me...

Tested the hypothesis that induced conceptions of ability as a stable entity or as an acquirable skill would affect self-regulatory mechanisms governing performance in a simulated organization. Ss served as managerial decision makers in which they had to match employees to subfunctions and to discover and apply managerial rules to achieve a difficult level of organizational performance. Those w...

Abstract How we live our lives depends on how relate to past, present and future. The article focusses the relation target of my critique is a “planning conception” that imagines future as realm can rationally plan form in light ends. In first section I an outline planning conception, building Bratman’s theory Rawls’ idea life plan. second highlights attractions conception. argue this conceptio...

An Aristotelian conception of practical ethics can be derived from the account of practical reasoning that Aristotle articulates in his Rhetoric and this has important implications for the way we understand the nature and limits of practical ethics. An important feature of this conception of practical ethics is its responsiveness to the complex ways in which agents form and maintain moral commi...

An Aristotelian conception of practical ethics can be derived from the account of practical reasoning that Aristotle articulates in is Rhetoric and this has important implications for the way we understand the nature and limits of practical ethics. an important feature of this conception of practical ethics is its responsiveness to the complex ways in which agents form and maintain moral commit...