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Critical Summary Of Cultural Effects On Eating Attitudes In Israeli Subpopulations And Hospitalized Anorectics
Number of Words: 773 / Number of Pages: 3
... that people in
professions where physical appearance is of extreme importance are more
likely to develop an eating disorder. In the Western world, over the past
two decades eating disorders have increased substantially. People believe
that this increase in eating disorders is due to the fashion industry. The
fashionable female figure of today has become thinner and more tubular
(Szmulker, McCance, McCrone, & Hunter, 1986).
In the world today, Apter believes that thinness is more and more a
symbol of the feminine ideal. He finds that the Western role of a woman is
now beginning to in ...
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Smoking
Number of Words: 2780 / Number of Pages: 11
... and Smoking Motivation in Female and Male Smokers. This study was
conducted using a sample of French smokers (36 F, 60 M) and non-smokers (23 F,
45 M). The goal of the experiment was to study "the relationship between
sensation seeking and smoking" (p. 221). The objectives of the study was (a) to
see if smokers are higher in sensation seeking than their non-smoking
counterparts, (b) to see if there are any gender forces in smoking and sensation
seeking, and (c) to examine "in each sex, the nature of the relationship between
sensation seeking and smoking" (p. 221).
These three items were measured ...
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The Controversy Surrounding The Gulf War Syndrome
Number of Words: 2591 / Number of Pages: 10
... to
celebrate the war's end when troops returned home to their loving countries.
As for Mark, he had done his job, he defeated the enemy and kept himself
alive. His own personal joy and relief overwhelmed him to the extent of
asking his girlfriend for her hand in marriage. She immediately said yes.
Within a year and a half upon the year's end, Mark and his wife had their
first child. Their child was not born as healthy as they had hoped. Mark
was devastated at his child's problems. Why did these things have to
happen to his child? In the weeks to come, rumors were spreading that many
babi ...
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Number of Words: 654 / Number of Pages: 3
... has been further investigated is that SIDS may be the result of the combinations of many syndromes. Such as: gastroesophageal reflux mixed with respiratory disease. #3
One of the newest ideas that researchers have suggested may be the cause of SIDS is “Vertebral Artery Compression Resulting from Head Movement”. This concept suggests that the rotation and extension of an infant’s neck during sleep may result in vertebral arter compression. The function of this artery is that it controls the blood flow to the brainstem. Compression, from the head being bent for long periods of time, may cause brai ...
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Alternative Medicine
Number of Words: 1181 / Number of Pages: 5
... I thought it would be interesting to find
our what other sources there are for help when I am ill.
Alternative medicine twenty years ago was an obscure term. Only 5
to 10 years ago, most physicians would have dismissed alternative medicine
as a fad that was perhaps a remnant of the 60's pop culture. An article in
American Family Physician, stated that a survey in 1990 which was reported
in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1993 revealed that 34% of
American s were using at least one type of alternative treatment. Patients
spent 13.7 billion dollars on alternative medicine, 10.3 billion of i ...
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Treatments Of Alcoholism
Number of Words: 1821 / Number of Pages: 7
... why the alcoholic drinks and what the physician or therapist believes is
the best method for recovery. Some treatments focus on the physical addiction
of alcoholism. Others emphasize the alcoholic's social or psychological
cravings.
Alcoholics Anonymous and Rational Recovery are two support groups that help
alcoholics recover. Other alcoholics benefit from one-on-one therapy with
counselors, who may help patients understand drinking and change their behavior.
Finally for some alcoholics, the most effective treatments are those that
combine medical treatment with counselling. Such treatment ...
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The Criminalization Of Knowingly Transmitting AIDS
Number of Words: 1394 / Number of Pages: 6
... blood, or sharing 'dirty' needles. (Needles
already used, in this case, by a HIV positive person.)
The criminalization of intentionally spreading AIDS has been a big
issue recently, and still remains so. As of September, 1991, legislation
criminalizing AIDS transmission has been passed in 24 states. Among these
states are California, Idaho, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, and South Carolina.
Under these current laws, it is a crime to knowingly transmit the virus
through sex, sharing needles, donating infected blood, organs, or skin
tissue.
The first person to go to court under these laws in M ...
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Necrotizing Fasciitis/Myosits (Flesh Eating Disease)
Number of Words: 565 / Number of Pages: 3
... The first record of the disease was in France in 1783. The disease
occurred throughout the 1800's and 1900's, but was usually only found in
military hospitals in times of war. Some outbreaks have occurred also in
civilian populations. There seemed to be some decrease in the 1940's, and
then another outbreak in the 1980's.
Ontario is the only province in Canada where there is statistics on
serious group a streptococcal infections (including necrotizing fasciitis).
These cases are reported to health authorities. Surveillance for group
A streptococcus began in 1991 in Canada. In Ontario, in 1 ...
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Anorexia And Bulimia
Number of Words: 1019 / Number of Pages: 4
... What are the causes of the eating disorders Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia?
There are many theories, but no clear picture. It is an over
simplification to blame the mass media's presentation to blame the mass media's
presentation of the ideal shape: though western society's increased emphasis on
the slim, fit body places pressure on many people.
We know there are many factors affecting the development of the
disorders- biological, psychological and sociological- so the relationship
between parent and child need not to be seen as the dominant cause. However the
reluctance to mature physically (sex ...
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Schizophrenia: Explained And Treatments
Number of Words: 2058 / Number of Pages: 8
... may believe
that he or she is possessed of great wealth, intellect, importance or power.
Sometimes the patient may think he is George Washington or another great
historical person (Chapman). Hallucinations are common, particularly auditory,
as voices in the third person or commenting upon the patient's thoughts and
actions (Arieti). Persons may also hear music or see nonexistent images
(Sinclair). Schizophrenic thought disorder is the diminished ability to think
clearly and logically (Torrey 2). Many times, schizophrenics invent new words
(called neologisms) with unique meanings (Chapman). Oft ...
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