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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Suicide Solution
Number of words: 540 - Number of pages: 2.... life in an over populated world.
True, one less person here on there will not make a large dent. Yet if
everyone who attempts or had attempted suicide were not stopped, the impact
would be noticed.
Another popular argument for stoppers, people who want to prevent
suicide, is that nothing can be bad enough. Yet how do they know this? They
do not have to put up with the same stuff the suicide victim does everyday.
How could they possibly know what the potential suicide victim feels. Just
as a severely burned victim may wish to be allowed to die in peace, .....
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Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 881 - Number of pages: 4.... in controlling the kind of treatment received in the final days of life. The dying individual regains dignity and respect in this difficult right to 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 .....
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Aspirin
Number of words: 769 - Number of pages: 3.... relieved moderate pain, and, at higher doses,
alleviated rheumatic fever and arthritic conditions.
Though Hoffmann was confident that ASA would prove more affective than
other salicylates, but his superiors incorrectly stated that ASA weakens the
heart and that physicians would not subscribe it. Hoffmann's employer,
Friedrich Bayer and Company, gave ASA its now famous name, aspirin.
It is not yet fully known how aspirin works, but most authorities agree
that it achieves some of its effects by hindering the flow of prostaglandins.
Prostaglandins are .....
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Definition Of The Oedipus Complex
Number of words: 2140 - Number of pages: 8.... kill, even if they
love, their fathers. He found his own unconscious wish to murder his father in
his intensive self analysis in 1897, shortly after the death of his father.
Freud says it is only the male child that we find the fateful
combination of love for the one parent and simultaneous hatred for the other as
a rival. Freud believed Oedipal was a normal part of human psychological growth
and it is during this stage children produce emotional conflicts.
Other psychoanalysts believed that girls experience a parallel called
the "Electra Complex". This come .....
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Scoliosis
Number of words: 322 - Number of pages: 2.... close follow-up to watch for worsening of the curve. Some cases require
more aggressive treatment which could include surgery.
The non-operative treatment of scoliosis involves observing the
deformity with examinations and repeated x-rays. Under certain circumstances,
when spinal growth remains, a brace may be used in combination with follow-up x-
rays. Physical therapy exercises have not been shown to be effective treatment
for scoliosis.
The most common surgical treatment for scoliosis is a spine fusion using
special stainless steel rods, hooks, and a bone gr .....
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The Ear And Hearing Loss
Number of words: 1113 - Number of pages: 5.... which are enclosed in a fluid filled chamber
called the cochlea. The outer and middle ears purposes are only to receive and
amplify sound. Those parts ofd the ear are only present in amphibians and
mammals, but the inner ear is present in all vertebrates.
The ear can hear in several different ways. They are volume, pitch, and
tone. Pitch is related to the frequency of the sound wave. The volume depends
on the amplitude or intensity of the sound wave. The greater the frequency, the
higher the pitch. Humans can hear about 30 and 20,000 waves or cycles .....
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Abortion
Number of words: 1799 - Number of pages: 7.... But who in reality is using arguments of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no
Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge,
can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that
when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new
human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely
different from any and other human being and yet, .....
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Depression
Number of words: 2627 - Number of pages: 10.... and stigmatized as a "character flaw" rather than being more correctly perceived as a recognized illness.
Depressed? Sometimes it's hard to know what really is because it has become such a sweeping term, being used to describe everything from deep grief to daily frustrations. But to start with the most rigorous definition, Western psychiatry has a fairly standardized way of diagnosing . Coming from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association", the following are the nine most common symptoms:
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