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The Mind, Music, And Behavior
Number of Words: 1995 / Number of Pages: 8
... The reader
might ask why such a question should be relevant. If more is known about the
psychological and neurophysiological effects of music on the human mind, then
the possibilities of this knowledge are unbounded. Music can be used to treat
social and behavioral problems in people with disabilities. The use of music in
the classroom might enhance or weaken a student's work characteristics.
Therefore, whether the influence of music is positive or negative, much needs to
be explored about the link between the mind and music.
Physiologically, the brain receives information about sound waves fr ...
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Argument Against Euthanasia
Number of Words: 3097 / Number of Pages: 12
... and let them die.
Many critics of the 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 euthanasia 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 m ...
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AIDS: US Made?
Number of Words: 1561 / Number of Pages: 6
... exposed to a range of infections that under
other circumstances would have been harmless. Most AIDS patients die from
opportunistic infections rather than from the AIDS virus itself. The initial
infection is characterized by diarrhea, erysipelas and intermittent fever. An
apparent recovery follows after 2-3 weeks, and in many cases the patient remains
without symptoms and functions normally for years.
After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
Complex) sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digestive tract, kidneys
and lungs. In most cases it develops into ...
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Dehumanization Of Infants
Number of Words: 922 / Number of Pages: 4
... but in many cases these abortion are considered justified
because the baby may have a handicap. She gave allot of reasonable
arguments of the unfairness that is involved in the laws in regards to
abortion for instance in America if you pay taxes your tax money could be
used to help fund abortion in the united states . and she also talked about
how recent medical advancements have spread light on the reality that the
unborn child is not just a mass of cells and tissue, this hypothesis was
used to explain the anti- life message that the fetus is not human and
does not deserve the rights to protect but ...
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Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
Number of Words: 803 / Number of Pages: 3
... of them. Autopsy on the nurse showed
significant damage to every organ in the body, the heart was stopped up, with
loads of blood cells and platelets piled well into the arteries and veins.
Fluids and blood filled the lungs. Dead cells and lipids clogged the liver and
spleen. The kidneys were so congested with dead cells and free proteins they had
ceased to function. Dissecting the lymph nodes, they discovered that they were
completely empty; every white blood cell had been utilized in a futile attempt
to stave off the unknown microbe. A few days later, a prominent western viral
researcher contracted ...
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Assumptions And Principles Underlying Standards For Care Of The Terminally Ill
Number of Words: 1137 / Number of Pages: 5
... interchange, and overlap between the
two systems so that the patient receives continuous appropriate care. The
patient should not be subjected to aggressive treatment that offers no hope of
being effective in curing or controlling the disease and may only cause further
distress. Obviously, the clinician must be on the alert for any shifts that may
occur in the course of a terminal illness, which make the patient again a
candidate for active treatment.
Patients suffer not only from inappropriate active care, but also from inept
terminal care. This is well documented by studies that only confirm what ...
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Pros And Cons Of Abortion
Number of Words: 3069 / Number of Pages: 12
... to come. The main controversy is should abortion be legalized? First before we get into the many sides of abortion we must first define abortion. Abortion is the destruction of the fetus or unborn child while the child is still in the mothers womb. This can be done by almost anyone from the mother herself to back alley abortions and even to abortions by clinics set up especially for this purpose.
There are two sides to this abortion topic the PRO-LIFE which is those who are against abortion altogether and the PRO-CHOICE or those who believe it is the womans right to choose if she wants to hav ...
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Ebola And Marburg Viruses
Number of Words: 606 / Number of Pages: 3
... Cardinal both contracted the same
level 4 hot virus. There is only one connection between Charles and Peter.
"The paths of Charles Monet and Peter Cardinal had crossed at only one place on
earth, and that was inside Kitum Cave." (pg. 140 - Cardinal). Kitum Cave is
where the virus is expected to be living or where the history of the Ebola
virus lays. So Kitum Cave is where the search for the deadly virus begins.
Led by Gene Johnson, the team members on the Kitum Cave expedition set up many
differing animals inside the cave with the hope that one of the animals would
contract the virus. Even ...
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Being A Doctor
Number of Words: 1829 / Number of Pages: 7
... enthusiasm in medicine helped him in his quest to help humanity. Hippocrates developed a set of medical ethics that influences medical practice still to this day (Hopke 494). Physicians that are starting to practice medicine generally take the Hippocratic Oath, which Hippocrates gave to his peers that were starting medicine.
Becoming a doctor is probably one of the hardest fields. To become a doctor, a person must be emotionally stable to handle any kind of situation. What if he had a patient that died right in front of his eyes? Physicians have to handle these kinds of situations every day. A perso ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 1806 / Number of Pages: 7
... connoted a "happy death,
an ideal and coveted end to a full and pleasant life." The concern to die
well is as old as humanity itself, for the questions surrounding death
belong to the essence of being human.
All people die, but apparently only people know they are to die. They
live with the truth that life is under the sentence of death. Thus, from
the "beginning of the species concern with how one dies has been an
implicit part of the human attempt to come to terms with death." (Paul D.
Simmons, 112) There is still a question involved in the contemporary
debates about euthanasia which is p ...
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