Word: worldview
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...course, Britain’s ignorantly upbeat worldview stretches far beyond sports. For all of Tony Blair’s best efforts to contribute meaningfully to America’s war on terrorism, Britain is now less known as an international superpower than as the home of Austin Powers...
...from clear that he's losing. That's not simply because he remains at large while reports of his spokesmen threatening new terror outrages have become a media staple. It's because an important measure of Bin Laden's strategic success or failure is the extent to which his worldview is embraced, or repudiated, on the Arab street. The fundamental strategic objective of al-Qaeda's terrorism is to channel the widespread anti-American anger in the Muslim world into the overthrow of pro-Western rulers, and their replacement by radical Islamist regimes. Whether the targets of its attacks...
...things is the importance in a doctor’s work with a patient for him to understand his patient’s worldview, because unless you understand that aspect of the patient you will not have an understanding of who that patient is and how they will confront illness and death—and all of these other aspects that you would find out if you understood a patient’s worldview. Modern medicine is just beginning to realize that that’s a very important part of a patient’s personal history...
...It’s very similar [to the undergraduate course] except that it has more of a clinical orientation. I think that there has been a change over the past ten years in medical school curriculums that now include courses that focus on understanding patient’s worldview...
...approach has always been to be the objective dispassionate observer, and I try to establish in my students the desire to make a critical and objective assessment, to understand the arguments of both whether they embrace it or not. If the course doesn’t change their worldview it has helped them understand and crystallize their own world view, because a lot of people just don’t know — they haven’t thought about it that much and they’re in the agnostic category...