Church-State Issues in America Today

Political Religion and Church-State Issues

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

HMOs : America Today , Britain Tomorrow ?

a non-profit organisation started by the medical school of Harvard University and its brochure says that it is "New England's most experienced HMO," which since 1969 has been "serving the residents of Eastern Massachusetts with high quality health care that's convenient and affordable." Until 1980 the Harvard plan was Boston's only HMO but now it is in fierce competition with 10 others. The pla...

Church and State in East Germany

The professions in America today: crucial but fragile

high point of human achievement, or, in George Bernard Shaw’s piquant phrase, as a “conspiracy against the laity,” there is little question that they have played a dominant role in industrial and postindustrial society since the early twentieth century. It is dif1⁄2cult to envision our era without the physicians, lawyers, and accountants to whom we turn for help at crucial times; or the archite...

Herbal Medicine Today: Clinical and Research Issues

HERBAL MEDICINE IS THE USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES: it ranges from traditional and popular medicines of every country to the use of standardized and tritated herbal extracts. Generally cultural rootedness enduring and widespread use in a Traditional Medical System may indicate safety, but not efficacy of treatments, especially in herbal medicine where tradit...