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OUTCOME OF BLOOD PRESSURE CONTROL

Elevated blood pressure (hypertension) is associated with increased risk for several complications, and the risk is gradually increasing from the lowest to the highest blood pressure levels. Elevated blood pressure is associated with metabolic and other abnormalities which are not affected by antihypertensive treatment. The majority of cardiovascular complications are found among individuals with only moderately elevated blood pressure levels. The antihypertensive treatment principles of today are effective against stroke but considerably less so against coronary heart disease complications. A programme launched by WHO Europe has measured the awareness of hypertension in various communities, the adequacy of care, the patients' satisfaction with the care, physicians' knowledge and attitudes and the utilization of hypotensive drugs. The impact of antihypertensive treatment on stroke and coronary heart disease, which latter are the most common, is reviewed. Quality of life effects of blood pressure treatment as well as some economic aspects are discussed.

Concepts in Cancer Care: A Practical Explanation of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Primary Care Physicians

This book is a compact, concise, and precise manual addressed to primary care physician. In roughly 250 pages, there is a good bit of philosophy and facts that make up today's principles of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in management of malignant disease. As authors state in preface, book is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise or treatment manual, but an attempt to explain biological basis for each nonsurgical cancer therapy. The chapters begin with a part on pathophysiology and backbones of basic oncology, followed by a section on rationale of treatment, as dictated by events that occur at cancer tissue level and in host bearing cancer. The inevitable hazards of treatment, including reactions and possible complications of nonsurgical cancer therapy, are placed in proper perspective by stating that the worst complication of cancer therapy is persistence or recurrence of

The civil theology of Inoue Tetsujirō

ethical principles do not change. They are the same East and West, past and present. The morality, however, is an ethos peculiar to a specific nationality. It aims at actualizing the abstract generalities of ethics. This presupposes particular situations and relationships, that is, a life. Environment, the disposition of the race, and the effects of history all contribute to the shaping of each specific Thus it was largely due to a remote geographical location that Japan developed her unique ethos. A morality is not the work of individuals. It is an unconscious, instinctual, spiritual creation seething and bubbling up within a race. Ethics, on the other hand, being more advanced, develops consciously. It is inferential, universalistic, non-instinctual, unemotional, and intellectual. While the morality is determined by history (and is therefore conservative), ethics is 18 Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 3/1 March 1976 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.45 on Thu, 01 Sep 2016 04:31:43 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The Civil Theology of Inoue Tetsujir6 open to the future. Historical investigation of the morality must be supplemented by a critical investigation of the morality that will bring forth a plan for the people's future moral development. In other words, the study of the morality must rely on ethics per se since it is ethics that is oriented toward the future. Thus critical research in the history of morality must throw light on today's principles through weighing those of the past. It must be critical as well as historical, practical as well as normative. At this point Inoue introduces his notion of selectivity. Certain elements are incompatible with the morality and must be carefully screened out. He cites as an example the Chinese theory of the change of the Mandate (ekisei kakumei) and various Western political theories that condone regicide. These are not compatible with Japan's A healthy ethics will assist in the selection of appropriate elements and in this way guide the morality toward the future. This he thought could already be seen in Japanese history in the role played by Neo-Confucianism as it shaped the morality of his own generation. Inoue made a fundamental distinction between national and national morality. National character points to the de facto characteristics of a people, morality to the way citizens should behave. The character of the Japanese isjissaiteki, which is to say that they are concerned with empirical reality and not with abstract reasoning. They are optimistic, unostentatious, and feel at one with nature. Among their other natural virtues are their mental acumen, simplicity, and purity. The Japanese, who take frequent hot baths and wash before entering shrine precincts, are extremely pure in their bodily habits, especially, he thought, when compared with other Asians. In contrast to the Chinese, who are dull and slow, the Japanese are emotionally susceptible and respond quickly to stimuli. This means, however, that they are easily taken in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 3/1 March 1976 19 This content downloaded from 157.55.39.45 on Thu, 01 Sep 2016 04:31:43 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms