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Anorexia Nervosa
Number of Words: 1420 / Number of Pages: 6
... patients either deny being hungry or claim to have full stomach after eating just a few bites.
This disease occurs at any stage of development, but emerges first in adolescence. Recent estimates suggest that out of every 200 American girls between the ages of 12 and 18, one will develop anorexia to some degree. While most patients are female, about 6 percent are adolescent boys. Occasionally, the disorder is found in older women and in children as young as eight years old.
In the classical text on anorexia, Garfinkel and Garner (1892) maintain that a combination of cultural, familial and individual ...
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Assisted Suicide: An Easier Way Out
Number of Words: 565 / Number of Pages: 3
... would prevent anything like this from happening. The Second Circuit
Court of Appeals created a law that prohibited physicians from helping their
patients die (Lemonick, p.82). Now, patients who are terminally ill and who
wish to die might decide to kill themselves in a manner that is less humane than
with a lethal injection or dosage of medicine. This new law makes it much
harder to get proper help in attaining an assisted suicide. This clearly would
cause many more problems than it would do good.
Last, there are many ways that using terminally ill patients that can
benefit science and the medi ...
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Is Marijuana Dangerous To Your Physical Health?
Number of Words: 1394 / Number of Pages: 6
... to your physical health. It will be shown that marijuana is popular and
that many people may not know what they are taking into their bodies. It will
be shown just what parts of the body marijuana effects and how it effects them.
The main purpose of this collection of information is to see just what marijuana
does to the body and to determine whether the effects are good, bad, or a
combination of both. Many different areas of research will be used.
The report "Marijuana Retains Popularity Despite Anti-drug Attitudes" in
The Dallas Times Herald by the Associated Press shows just how po ...
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Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... die issue.
There are several terms related to euthanasia that must be understood. In this country the most widely used right to die policy comes in the form of refusing medical treatment. This term is known as passive euthanasia. This is the allowing of the disconnection of life support equipment or stopping of life-sustaining medical procedures. There have been numerous notable legal battles in the execution of this policy. Such as in 1975, a young woman named Karen Ann Quinlan was in a coma after suffering a respiratory arrest. Her family undertook the legal battle to prove their daughter wo ...
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The Education Of A.I.D.S Discrimination
Number of Words: 1606 / Number of Pages: 6
... from
satisfactory to intolerable. An employee should not be denied employment or
promotion if they are not flawed by HIV. Some employees are not stripped of
their capacities to perform even though they are infected with HIV(Lewy 2). Why
should the employee health benefits be altered because of the nature of the
disease. The majority of employee policies offered cover catastrophic illness
with only ten percent covering A.I.D.S. One particular policy states that
people do not become infected through usual behavior in a working environment.
This illustrates that A.I.D.S patients are prote ...
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Herbal Extracts And Hormones
Number of Words: 1618 / Number of Pages: 6
... 26-27 continue their search for the cures of all
aches and pains.
In past years, herbs were used for pains and aches. These herbs are
making a comeback because they have fewer side effects than regular medicine.
An example is willow bark Mowry, pgs. 43-49 which is being used instead of
aspirin. Aspirin was made from the active ingredient in willow bark. However,
people are using willow bark instead of aspirin because it does not cause the
stomach to bleed as aspirin does.
Ginkgo is being sold as a leading prescription drug in Germany and most
countries in Europe. Takagi, pgs. 96-101 ...
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The Relationship Between Food Concentration, And Respiratory Activity
Number of Words: 373 / Number of Pages: 2
... in this expriment was that the most respiratory activity
would take place with 60% sucrose concentration. Since yeast fermentation
requires sucrose and water, aproximately equal proportions of both would yield
to the most respiratory activity.
Once the sucrose concentration was serially cut to the desired level,
the experimenter added 5 ml of yeast suspension to each one of the ten test
tubes.
Then, ten small test tubes were placed invertedly into each one of the
large test tubes, making sure no air bubbles remained within the small tibes.
The test tubes were left 24 hours, allowing fo ...
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Female Genital Mutilation: Long Term Psychological Effects
Number of Words: 2173 / Number of Pages: 8
... for the practice are
bewildering and unfounded in any scientific or medical fact. They fall into four
main categories: psycho-sexual, religious, sociological and hygienic. Among the
psycho-sexual reasons is a belief that the clitoris is an aggressive organ that
threatens the male organ and even endangers babies during delivery. It is
believed that if a baby's head touches the mother's clitoris during birth, the
child will be born with a low IQ. Hence, a girl who is not circumcised, is
considered 'unclean' by local villagers and thus unmarriageable. A girl who does
not have here clitoris removed is c ...
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Tobacco
Number of Words: 1165 / Number of Pages: 5
... pregnancy produces changes on the offspring's neural functioning, including reductions in uptake of serotonin, alterations in dopaminergic systems, alterations in peripheral and central noradrenergic neurons, and changes in DNA and RNA synthesis in the brain (9). Children prenatally exposed to nicotine consistently score lower in the two subcategories of expressive language and conceptual comprehension.
Evidence from studies of human neonates suggests that maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with increased rates of neurobehavioral difficulties. Several studies have linked maternal smoking ...
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The Quest To Understand The Origins Of Humans
Number of Words: 1286 / Number of Pages: 5
... gods were. When people can
not handle problems, which arise every day in front of them, they try to
hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them,
they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes
everything worse. The desperate attempt to explain their own existence took
people to the creation of many various myths, which also incorporated in
them many different aspect of the culture and everyday life of their
creators. This connection between people and the myths is actually
illustrated on the three creation stories Genesis, Buddha and Zeus
mytholog ...
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