Given the book's incorporation of all four of these means to determine belief and practice, it is sure to go a long a way not only for healing the ontological wounds gay Christians bear but so many others that have been caused by the church.
He argues that worries about underdetermination are an aspect of the more general question of the reliability of our inductive methods for determining beliefs, and notes that we cannot decide how serious a problem underdetermination poses without specifying (as Laudan and Leplin do not) the inductive methods we are considering.
The objective of this study was to investigate ethno-culturally determined beliefs, expectations and attitudes toward medication among a sample of hospitalized psychiatric patients.
The outcome of DM depends mainly on the patient's self-management, which is guided by individual and culturally determined beliefs about health and illness [ 9, 10].
A previous study of Ugandans diagnosed with DM showed that underlying living conditions such as affordability of drugs, food, equipment for self-monitoring of blood glucose, and different gender roles determined beliefs about health and illness and affected health-related behaviour including healthcare-seeking behaviour [ 12].
In this process, these culturally- determined belief systems further cement a faith in the goodness of the Mediterranean Diet in the minds of Western elites.
It is critical to measure beliefs quantitatively in order to determine which beliefs are most strongly linked to motivation, and which ones differentiate men who are motivated from those less motivated to get circumcised.
This study aimed to identify the salient beliefs AI women from Oklahoma have on regular mammography screening, and to determine which beliefs and health- related practices are associated with past mammography screening behavior.
Since the balance of reasons rather than the balance of force should determine our beliefs, we would not consent to a system in which irrelevant reasons for belief might influence us.
Purpose: To determine current beliefs regarding ankyloglossia and its treatment.
