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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Indian Healing Beliefs
Number of words: 1010 - Number of pages: 4.... in understa
nding tribal beliefs about illness and healing. Most tribes have the
beliefs that their medicine people have “extra” that others don't. This
power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into
the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes
generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women
medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine
people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or
counselor. The Hopi tribe has Effie, a medicine women who lear .....
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My Viewpoint Regarding Abortions
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2.... the right to choose
if she wants to have an abortion. Your viewpoint does not acknowledge a
woman's right to freedom of choice. I agree with your opinion, that the
fetus is a human and that it has a right to life and that is why I believe
in early abortions.
I feel that your viewpoint would cause many problems. One problem
is that your viewpoint allows no abortions, that allows no consideration
for the mother of the family that would be effected by that child. Also,
pro-lifers do not agree with sex-education in schools this would lead to
more teen pregnan .....
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James Rachels' Death And Dying
Number of words: 1725 - Number of pages: 7.... a person to death in a peaceful
manner is called euthanasia. Euthanasia is an ancient word that means "easy
death." There is also the issue of morality. Would killing someone by their
own will or suicide be a moral act? What about a patient that is suffering from
cancer? Is it moral to let that person suffer? These are some of the many
questions people have been trying to answer for year without success.
Euthanasia is a very uncomfortable subject to talk about for most people
because who wants to think about having to kill oneself or a person that is dear .....
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Bipolar Disorder
Number of words: 1919 - Number of pages: 7.... episode include anhedonia, disturbances in sleep and appetite, psycomoter retardation, loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness, guilt, difficulty thinking, indecision, and recurrent thoughts of death and suicide (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). The manic episodes are characterized by elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, decreased need for sleep, poor judgment and insight, and often reckless or irresponsible behavior (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ).
Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent of the population (approximately three milli .....
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Alzheimers Disease
Number of words: 583 - Number of pages: 3.... symptoms of Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease is a
dementing illness which leads to loss of intellectual capacity. Symptoms usually
occur in older adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be
affected) and include loss of language skills such as trouble finding words,
problems with abstract thinking, poor or decreased judgment, disorientation in
place and time, changes in mood or behavior and changes in personality. The
overall result is a noticeable decline in personal activities or work
performance.
Who is affected by Alzheimers Disease? Alz .....
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Cancer
Number of words: 936 - Number of pages: 4.... in both men and women, followed by prostate cancer in men
and breast cancer in women. Yet lung cancer causes the most deaths in men and
women. Leukemia, or cancer of the blood, is the most common type in children.
An increasing incidence has been clearly observable over the past few decades,
due in part to improved cancer screening programs, and also to the increasing
number of older persons in the population, and also to the large number of
tabacco smokers--particularly in women. Some researchers have estimated that if
Americans stopped smoking, lung can .....
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The Effects Of Teenage Alcoholism
Number of words: 1072 - Number of pages: 4.... Since the brain won’t be able to review what happened in one day they will not be able to remember what they have learned.[ Coping with]
Alcohol also has other effects on the body. It can cause a person to loss their balance and make it very hard for them to stand up and walk. Alcoholism also effects a person’s reaction time and hand-eye coordination, which can often lead to serious accidents. High concentrations of alcohol can cause your breathing to slow and eventually stop. Alcohol slows a person synaptic transmission which slows breathing. This slowed breath .....
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Number of words: 791 - Number of pages: 3.... has been described as “brain fatigue” in which patients feel totally drained of energy. This can lead to difficulty concentrating. Most fibromyalgia patients have an associated sleep disorder called the alpha-EEG anomaly. This condition was uncovered in a sleep lab with the aid of a machine which recorded the brain waves of patients during sleep. Researchers found that patients could fall asleep without much trouble, but their deep level (or stage 4) sleep was constantly interrupted by bursts of awake-like brain activity. Patients appeared to spend the night .....
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