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The Brain
Number of Words: 755 / Number of Pages: 3
... above it. The outer layer of the cerebrum is called the cortex. The cortex is mainly made up of nerve cell fibres. The cerebrum cortex is folded into a surface with many ridges and grooves. This folding greatly increases the surface area of the cortex and the number of nerve cells it contains within the limited space of the skull. The largest portion of the cortex is the association brain cortex. Every region of has areas of association cortex that analyse, process, and store information. These association areas make possible all our higher mental abilities, such as thinking, speaking, and r ...
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McDonaldization: Health In A Fastfood Society
Number of Words: 1464 / Number of Pages: 6
... when you first step into a hospital
waiting room and a huge sign tells you a number before you are even able to
speak to anyone. After waiting a while your number is called, you must give
your health card number to the receptionist before continuing. You are then
given a file number, which is your only identity for the time you spend within
the hospital environment. After seeing the doctor you may come out with a few
prescriptions which furthers your nameless ordeal. When you drop nameless
ordeal. When you drop into a pharmacy to have a prescription filled the first
thing they ask is if you know ...
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Alzheimer's Disease
Number of Words: 736 / Number of Pages: 3
... cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other
diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's
Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are not sure how the paired
helixes are related in these very different diseases. Neuritic Plaques are
patches of clumped material lying outside the bodies of nerve cells in the brain.
They are mainly found in the cerebral cortex, but have also been seen in other
areas of the brain. At the core of each of these plaques is a substance called
amyloid, an abnormal protein not usually found in the brain. This amyloid ...
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Suicide -- Causes And Effects
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... but not everyone. Those who are pushed to their limits and cannot cope with it feel let down by themselves. They feel as if they are not wanted anymore by the society. This creates a low self-esteem.
There are a lot of misconceptions about suicide. It is believed that people who talk about suicide won¡¯t attempt it. It is also believed that people who commit suicide are insane and nothing can stop them from attempting it. But research has proven that people who talk about it go on and attempt it. By talking to us about it they try to give us some kind of distress signal. Most suicidal people are not i ...
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Doctor Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... die if they choose to. The only problem is that some states have decided to not allow physician assisted suicide. For example, people like Dr. Kevorkian has been under much scrutiny for assisting in deaths. I don’t necessarily agree with his bedside manor and his “icy okey-doke” (Goodman, 495) But when somebody decides to take his own life, it is up to the individual to do so.
Another problem is the moral issue. Is assisted suicide moral or immoral? If a person is terminally ill and is going to die from the illness, then the only thing to do is to take his or her own life to end suffering. Take for exa ...
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Artificial Life Or Death
Number of Words: 1332 / Number of Pages: 5
... death is
one situation which merits euthanasia. It is also one of the more common cases
where euthanasia is requested. Brain death is when all brain activities cease.
The lines are fairly well drawn in the law about patients who are
suffering but are still compotent, but when the law is asked to determine the
fate of a lingering, comatose, incompotent patient the lines begin to blur. In
many cases the courts turned to the patient's family, but what if there are not
any or they disagree? In such cases who decides? In a controversial decision a
Massachusetts court allowed that it would invoke its o ...
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Drug Dependence
Number of Words: 402 / Number of Pages: 2
... has a so-called idiosyncratic response to a particular sedative, for example,
may become excited rather than relaxed. Others may be hypersensitive, or
extremely sensitive, to certain drugs, suffering reactions that resemble
allergies.
A patient may also acquire a tolerance for a certain drug. This means that
ever-larger doses are necessary to produce the desired therapeutic effect.
Tolerance may lead to habituation, in which the person becomes so dependent upon
the drug that he or she becomes addicted to it. Addiction causes severe
psychological and physical disturbances when the drug is ta ...
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Condoms In Schools Do Not Solve Teen Problems
Number of Words: 750 / Number of Pages: 3
... the 1980s, Urban Institute researchers at the University of Illinois found that, [efforts have increased to alert the public to the dangers of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancy, yet these problems have increased.]2 Adolescents and young adults have been especially hit hard. In addition, [among all sexually active people, teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases of any age group.]2
Faced with the magnitude of these problems, our nation through its educational institutions has responded during different eras with prevention programs. F ...
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The Ebola Virus
Number of Words: 1005 / Number of Pages: 4
... of 88% in Zaire and 53% in Sudan"1 The cause of these outbreaks still
remain unknown. No association with monkeys could be attributed to either
of the outbreaks. The only other case besides in Marburg that Ebola seemed
to be associated with monkeys was a filovirus (family of viruses containing
Ebola) isolated from cynomolgus monkeys from the Philippines. This Virus
caused no serious symptoms in humans. Scattered outbreaks of Ebola have
been reported in Central Africa for several years.
The Ebola virus is a member a family of RNA viruses known as
filoviruses. Ebola is a negative stranded ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 2972 / Number of Pages: 11
... medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of is having a tremendous impact on medicine in the United States today. It was only in the nineteenth century that the word came to be used in the sense of speeding up the process of dying and the destruction of so-called useless lives. Today it is defined as the deliberate ending of life of a person suffering from an incurable disease. A distinction is made between positive, or active, and negative, or passive ...
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