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Asclepius was the main healing deity of the Classical Antiquity. After his gradual establishment, his cult expanded throughout the Greek world, especially in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Asclepius was worshipped in sacred precincts labelled asklepieia (singular asklepieion), which served both as religious sites and as medical facilities where the sick came for healing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReligion as a Functional Equivalent of Medicine: Religious Experiences of Family Caregivers of People with Chronic Illnesses in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
J Relig Health
January 2025
Department of Sociology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This article details the religious experiences of family caregivers in living with and caring for people with chronic illnesses in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This phenomenological study conducted in-depth interviews with 20 family caregivers recruited from Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, who accompanied their loved ones during medical appointments or hospital stays. It used a thematic analysis to analyze the collected data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe library is open: a scoping review on queer representation in psychedelic research.
Front Public Health
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
The intersection of queer identity and psychedelics has not been thoroughly explored by the research community, historically or in the present day. With growing access to legal psychedelic therapies, it is essential that queer psychedelic experiences are understood sufficiently by clinicians in order to provide the most safe and effective care possible. Psychedelics and queerness are intricately related, and there is strong interest in the use of psychedelics for healing and identity development among queer populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHope and Healing: Exploring the Effect of Physical Illness on Religiosity in a Longitudinal Sample of Americans.
J Relig Health
December 2024
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 469B Bukit Timah Road, #02-02, Singapore, 259771, Singapore.
This paper uses longitudinal data from 2002 to 2021 to investigate the extent to which physical illness is predictive of religiosity in the United States. Specifically, it leverages multiple rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), a survey of over 8000 Americans born between 1980 and 1984. Conditional fixed-effects logistic regressions are employed to examine the sample of respondents with changes in religiosity across survey rounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding the lived experiences of people living with epilepsy: Oral history assessment in the Shai Osudoku and Ningo Prampram districts, Ghana.
Epilepsy Behav
December 2024
University of Ghana, Ghana. Electronic address:
Introduction: Epilepsy is a prevalent neurological condition globally, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, it is one of the top five causes of premature death and disability, impacting children's neurological development and learning outcomes. Although 25% of epilepsy cases are preventable, many go undiagnosed and untreated.
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