(b) The administration of the Health Department to be per medium of a Governing Board representative of the various sciences concerned in the maintenance of racial health, i.e., Applied Biology, Chemistry, Dentistry, Economics, Education, Endocrinology, Ethics, Eugenics, Hygiene and Sex Hygiene, Medicine (including the establishment of a Chair of Pediatrics), Nutritional Physiology, Pharmaceuti...

this paper aims to show the impact of fear of god, as one of the most important signs of religious spirituality, on improving sexual and gender relationships in family and society as well as other social relationships and thus to offer some procedures for enhancing and expanding this character at familial and societal levels in order to reduce the problems involved in social relations specially...

Terrence D. Hill, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the social distribution of health and health-relevant behaviors. Michael E. McCullough, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Miami. His research is currently concentrated in three areas: forgiveness and revenge, gratitude, and religion and spirituality. Religio...

Sociologists of the 19th and the 20th centuries were tackling the relation between science and religion. A few models of these relations were offered, by which the monopoly over the truth by any one of those is crashed. Therefore, there are a few models but each is with lots of limitations. None is sufficient to explain the relation between the science and religion, but each contributes to cert...

CONTEXT Religion and spirituality play an important role in physicians' medical practice, but little research has examined their influence within the socialization of medical trainees and the hidden curriculum. OBJECTIVES The objective is to explore the role of religion and spirituality as they intersect with aspects of medicine's hidden curriculum. METHODS Semiscripted, one-on-one intervie...