©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(2) Priest doctors As the stream of monks left their foundations at the dissolution of the monasteries in the mid-16th century, the society that surrounded them was profoundly affected. While some fought dramatically against closure – even losing their lives – the vast majority of monks went quietly, with pensions, into the sunset. No matter how we...

Canon Dewar's book is very timely. At the International Congress on Mental Health, held in August, 1948, in London, emphasis was frequently laid on the fact that the parson was a member of the mental health team. The antipathy between the exponent of the young and growing science of human behaviour and authoritarian religion, has prevented the co-operation which would be of mutual benefit to bo...

The serum vitamins A, E, and C (antioxidant vitamins) of 112 priest subjects, compared with 90 males and 119 females in a control group, were investigated. Subjects for the study were Thai volunteers who attended the Outpatient Department, Priest Hospital, Bangkok, for a physical check-up from July to September 2003. There was no age difference between the priest group and the controls. All ser...

OBJECTIVE To study the serum zinc, selenium, and copper of priest subject who attended the outpatient Department, Priest Hospital Bangkok for a physical check-up, between March and October 2003 MATERIAL AND METHOD The serum zinc, selenium, and copper of 112 priest subjects, 33 healthy and 79 diseased, compared with a control group of 90 males and 119females Thai volunteers. RESULTS Serum co...

The best-known application of dialetheism is to semantic paradoxes such as the Liar. In particular, Graham Priest has advocated the adoption of an axiomatic truth theory in which contradictions arising from the Liar paradox can be accepted as theorems, while the Liar sentence itself is evaluated as being both true and false. Such eccentricities might be tolerated, in exchange for great rewards....

Dialetheism is the view according to which some contradictions (i.e., statements of the form, A and not-A) are true. In this paper, I discuss three strategies to block dialetheism: (i) Contradictions cannot be true because some theories of truth preclude them from emerging. (ii) Contradictions cannot be true because we can’t see what is like to perceive them. Although that doesn’t undercut the ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of malnutrition in the Buddhist Priest Patients on admission to Priest Hospital. MATERIAL AND METHOD During September 2007, 97 Buddhist Priest admitted to Priest Hospital were assessed for their nutritional status by using Subjective global assessment (SGA) and Body mass index (BMI). Serum albumin, hematocrit, and total lymphocyte count (TLC) were also e...