The study indicates that this population has a high rate of metabolic risk of cardiovascular disease and that treatment will require addressing barriers to screening.
Both in his preoccupation with practical ethics and in the positions that he took, Thomas of Chobham generally resembled other theologians who studied in Paris at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century. On first consideration, however, his statements concerning married women appear quite eccentric. Thomas argued in his Manual for Confessors (c. 1215) that women should employ persuasion, feminine enticements, and even deceit in their attempts to influence and correct the moral and economic behavior of their husbands:In imposing penance, it should always be enjoined upon women to be preachers to their husbands, because no priest is able to soften the heart of a man the way his wife can. For this reason, the sin of a man is often imputed to his wife if, through her negligence, he is not corrected. Even in the bedroom, in the midst of their embraces, a wife should speak alluringly to her husband, and if he is hard and unmerciful, and an oppressor of the poor, she should invite him to be merciful; if he is a plunderer, she should denounce plundering; if he is avaricious, she should arouse generosity in him, and she should secretly give alms from their common property, supplying the alms that he omits. For it is permissible for a woman to expend much of her husband's property, without his knowing, in ways beneficial to him and for pious causes.Therefore, this ought to be the first and foremost concern of the priest, that he instruct the wife in this way. 1
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