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HIV fatalism and engagement in transactional sex among Ugandan fisherfolk living with HIV
SAHARA-J, 2019 HIV fatalism, or the belief that HIV acquisition and mortality is out of one's control, is thought to contribute to HIV risk in fishing populations in East Africa.
Katelyn M. Sileo +6 more
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Fatalism in systematic aspect and fatalism in its functional context
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1967 In this paper, the author explores ideas of how to approach the subject of fate and fatalism. Fate, when equated with a man's life, can be raised to an infinite number of powers—as illustrated in the well-known story of the philosopher who began to ...
Gustav Henningsen
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, 2009 This paper identifies two central paradoxes threatening the notion of amor fati [love of fate]: it requires us to love a potentially repellent object (as fate entails significant negativity for us) and this, in the knowledge that our love will not modify
Andersen +47 more
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“Free Will and Affirmation: Assessing Honderich’s Third Way” [PDF]
, 2017 In the third and final part of his A Theory of Determinism (TD) Ted Honderich addresses the fundamental question concerning “the consequences of determinism.” The critical question he aims to answer is what follows if determinism is true?
B Waller +12 more
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BMC Women's Health, 2019 Background Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women, and in those with a positive family history, it is important to perform mammography. One of the probable barriers in doing mammography is fatalism.
Maryam Molaei-Zardanjani +2 more
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American Journal of Men's Health, 2007 African American men present at later stages of testicular cancer and have higher mortality rates than Caucasian men. Lack of awareness, beliefs, and access to care may influence this disparity.
Barbara D. Powe PhD, RN +4 more
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Social interactions and cultural repertoires as resources for coping with breast cancer [PDF]
, 2017 The article aims to better understand the role of cultural and social resources for coping with cancer as a disruptive experience. Fourteen women who had recently received a diagnosis of breast cancer and started a treatment in an Italian hospital have ...
Alby, Francesca, Zucchermaglio, Cristina
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Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Background: A growing number of studies report that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in diverse aversive psychological reactions and created a global mental health crisis.
Rahel Bachem +4 more
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Sense of community, fatalism and participation in socio-economic crisis contexts [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2017 This study analyses the relationship among sense of community, fatalism and participation in the context of the current socio-economic crisis. In order to do this, it establishes differences in these variables according to certain socio-economic factors:
Macarena Vallejo-Martín +2 more
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'Islamic fatalism': life and suffering among Bangladeshi psychiatric patients and their families in London--an interview study 2 [PDF]
, 2013 An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in eastern London demonstrated frequent appeals to God and deprecation of personal agency.
Dein, S, Littlewood, R
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