Against the background of differing opinions about Gandhi’s views on relationship between political action and religious inspiration, this paper examines his use scriptures, if he made hermeneutical decisions so, what they were. The starting point is a letter from Gandhi in which pleaded against reading scriptures literally named truth, ahiṃsā, living faith as criteria. Reason most important, b...

Faith-based organizations (FBOs) have a long tradition of providing HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation services in Africa. The overall response of FBOs, however, has been controversial, particularly in regard to HIV/AIDS prevention and FBO's rejection of condom use and promotion, which can conflict with and negatively influence national HIV/AIDS prevention response efforts. This article reports...

We would like to arrive at a single coherent pair of credences in X and X. Perhaps we wish to use these to set our own credences; or perhaps we wish to publish them in a report of the WHO as the collective view of expert epidemiologists; or perhaps we wish to use them in a decision-making process to determine how medical research funding should be allocated in 2018. Given their expertise, we wo...

I am Nika Matovac, a medical student and daughter of Ves-na Andrijević-Matovac, who was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was only 11 years old. As you might know, when my mum was writing this column, she was talking about her feelings, her fears, her tears, she told you stories from her life and the life of her friends who were in the same situation… I've written about how I felt during all ...