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The Divine Viscera: Medicine and Religion in the Islamic Golden Age [PDF]

, 2016
Islamic medicine is largely ignored in Western tradition, but in an era when Western European medical practice relied more on mysticism than science and had lost the advances made by Classical Greece, the Islamic Empire entered a golden age of scientific
Pua, Isabella A
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Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz, Fiona Carey, Libby Witts, Jessie Spence, Peter Mulherin, Megan Topping, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +7 more
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Challenges of Developing Religious Competencies in Medical Education in Iran: A Qualitative Study

Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics, 2019
Background and Objectives: Competency-based medical education focuses on empowering the medical students with capabilities required to act effectively in their field work, in accordance with the needs and demands of the service sector.
Morteza Heidari, Abbas Abbaspour, Hamid Rahimian, Akram Heidari   +3 more
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Salud y religión: un enfoque bioético

Revista Bioética
Resumen La religión es un elemento de la cultura que está presente en el proceso de salud-enfermedad-atención. Esta presencia no solamente es a nivel personal, sino a nivel colectivo a través de políticas públicas de salud. Estas políticas deben pensarse
Jorge Alberto Álvarez Díaz
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Understanding the Personalistic Aspects of Jola Ethnomedicine [PDF]

, 2017
This paper discusses the contemporary expression of the personalistic aspects of Jola ethnomedicine. Ethnomedicine pertains to the culturally specific health- associated beliefs and behaviors of a society.
Randall, Theo
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A website supporting sensitive religious and cultural advance care planning (ACPTalk): Formative and summative evaluation [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) promotes conversations about future health care needs, enacted if a person is incapable of making decisions at end-of-life that may be communicated through written documentation such as advance care directives.
Boyd, leanne.boyd@acu.edu.au, Leanne Boyd, Mader, Patrick, O'Callaghan, Clare, Pereira-Salgado, Amanda   +4 more
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‘People Need to Understand That They Are Stealing From Their Neighbours’: A Critical Media Analysis of the Representations and Resistance Throughout the Robodebt Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnicity and the surgical management of early invasive breast cancer in over 164 000 women

BJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
This large national study examined in detail the patterns in surgical management of early breast cancer in women of different ethnicities. Allowing for different patterns of age and stage at presentation, the surgical management of early breast cancer was similar in all women, regardless of ethnicity. All treated the same Background Limited information
T. Gathani, K. Chiuri, J. Broggio, G. Reeves, I. Barnes   +4 more
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The Role of Spiritual Coping and Psychological Capital in Predicting Students’ Addiction [PDF]

Health, Spirituality and Medical Ethics
Background and Objectives: Addiction is considered one of the fundamental challenges in the field of mental health among students. Identifying protective and spiritual factors can play a crucial role in preventing the tendency toward substance use.
Halimeh Jamalian, Minoo Miri
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An interfaith dialogue with Sir William Osler: crossing the divide of COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2020
With the recent COVID-19 pandemic and George Floyd protests, the USA (US) has become extensively polarized across social and political divides. The COVID-19 pandemic has left tens of thousands dead and several million American citizens without work ...
Jonathan Kopel, Mark Webb
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