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Term Papers on Health and Medicine
Hypnosis In Psychology
Number of words: 987 - Number of pages: 4.... of the hypnotic relationship. These approaches have many dissimilarities
and thus are utilized for different practices.
The authoritarian approach emphasizes the power of the hypnotist.
This approach, spawned by Mesmer and others, is still widely exploited by stage
hypnotists and is consequently often the conceptualization held by the uniformed
lay person. Even many trained physicians implicitly adhere to this view, which
in it's extreme form involves some powerful and charismatic hypnotist exercising
some strange power over a hapless and weak-wil .....
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Schizophrenia
Number of words: 639 - Number of pages: 3.... "voices" these patients hear,are related to the patients emotional problems,while others are just jumbled messages.
Location and Occurrence
Schizophrenia occurs in all cities and countries.All social classes are affected,but in the larger cities schizophrenia is three to four times more common in the lower classes,than in the middle and upper classes.Doctors say this difference is due in part to the downward social status of people developing the disease."Schizo" occurs equally as often in men and women,however it occurs at an earlier age for men.Schizophrenia .....
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Epilepsy
Number of words: 387 - Number of pages: 2.... that precedes a generalized seizure and comes seconds or minutes before the actual seizure. In most people, however, seizure are unpredictable and unrelated to the person’s current situation some external determinants may trigger seizures though. Lack of sleep, emotional stress, missed meals, alcohol ingestion/withdrawal, even fever or some infections may produce seizures.
There are many possible cause of but in more than half the causes, the precise cause cannot be determined. An inherited tendency to develop the disorder occurs in the families of s .....
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The Ebola Virus: One Deadly Disease
Number of words: 859 - Number of pages: 4.... then occurred in 1995, when a patient in a hospital thought he had malaria. Ebola was also discovered in the United States in 1989. A shipment of African Green and Rhesus monkeys arrived in Virginia from the Philippines. The one hundred and forty-nine workers that had worked with the monkeys were not effected by the virus at all, although two have developed antibodies from the Ebola Reston. Many other countries have been affected with this deadly disease and are spreading rapidly.
Like many things, the Ebola Virus is a member of a family. It comes from RNA .....
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Autism
Number of words: 422 - Number of pages: 2.... of any group of symptoms is not so much universal as statistically possible(Levinson and Osterwell 7). The symptoms of can be consolidated into five major symptoms. The first symptom is a lack of responsiveness to other people, objects, and events. Disturbance of speech, language, perception, and nonverbal communication is the second major symptom. The third symptom of consists of a bizarre response to the environment such as a change in peculiar interest to animate and inanimate objects. The fourth symptom is the delay of response to sensory stim .....
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Herpes-Simplex: Type 2
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2.... itching, or inflammation, no
established treatmemt has actually been developed.
The second type of the herpes simplex virus, however, is the usual cause
of genital herpes. Herpes infections of the genital area have become
increasingly common, going along with a rise in general of many sexually
transmitted diseases. Sometimes accompanied by headache and fever, the condition
usually begins with a mild itching, followed by the development of clusters of
blisters that break and crust to form scabs that eventually dry up. The process
may last one to three week .....
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Philosophy - Abortion Rectitude
Number of words: 2839 - Number of pages: 11.... that wrestle
with moral dilemmas. Absolute morality that will be agreed upon by the
majority of a society is extremely difficult to determine since each
individual has the ability to decide for themselves what is morally
acceptable. It is because of this decision that our American culture
intensely debates issues of morality such as abortion. The debate over
abortion pits the rights to life of an unborn fetus against the rights of
rational women who want to control what happens to their own body. Does
the termination of a pregnancy deprive a human of their r .....
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Euthanasia
Number of words: 419 - Number of pages: 2.... organs can work by means of
certain equipment. Now heart- lung machines can augment the duration of
life.
Well some say that life is precious, HOW IS LIFE PRECIOUS, WHEN IT CAN
NOT BE LIVED TO THE FULLEST ?.
I believe that Euthanasia should be legalized because of that option
of dying. People say that their should be a option to live, but I think
that there should also be a option to die. Many also think that they should
stay alive because they don't want death for their own reason. Why not put
them out of there misery, if the pain that one goes thr .....
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