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IVF: A Medical Breakthrough Or A Medical Burden?
Number of words: 2464 - Number of pages: 9

.... a morally acceptable means of conception. Among these concerns are the following: (1) Is IVF morally unacceptable because it is an "unnatural" means of conception? (2) Does IVF threaten the moral status of women? (3) Does IVF harm the autonomy of a woman? The first of these concerns, that questioning the acceptability of IVF as a means of conception on the grounds of naturality, is one of great importance. Those opposing the use of IVF as a means of conception argue that in vitro fertilization is an unnatural means of conception and is thus morally unacceptable. However, as Peter Si .....

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The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
Number of words: 898 - Number of pages: 4

.... body and arms--everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, his feet were kicking. Then the doctor suck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp." It was clear that the abortion camp needed to do some damage control. Since the media .....

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Flash Memory
Number of words: 1787 - Number of pages: 7

.... with any evidence that might challenge the memory. So this syndrome takes on a life of its own, keeping itself to be alone and resistant to correction. The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she may be effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life. There are many models which try to explain how memory works. Nevertheless, we do not know exactly how memory works. One of the most questionable models of memory is the one which assumes that every experience a person has had is "recorded" in memory and that, "some of these memories are from trau .....

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The Controversial Issue Of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Number of words: 808 - Number of pages: 3

.... not imagine living in a hospital bed for the remainder of their lives. They would rather die with dignity than live out the rest of their lives depandant on others. The government thinks that they know what is best for the people. If everyone is an individuall, how can the government know what is best for everyone. I feel that people shold make up thir own minds about what is best for them. Joshua Haney worote an article on assisted suicide. He says, "Everyday we make choices that decide our fate and future. We choose where we work, what we eat and drink, etc. This is just one more ch .....

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Skin Cancer
Number of words: 880 - Number of pages: 4

.... enters a quick growth phase. When this occurs the survival rates plummet.(Brandt, 1996) Skin Cancer can be avoided. A change in lifestyle can reduce the risk of skin cancer. This includes awareness of the reality of skin cancer, avoiding the sun, and self-examination and screening. Most of the time when people think of a serious disease they think of things like lung cancer, heart disease, sexually transmitted diseases, and other hot topic diseases of that nature. Skin cancer awareness and the seriousness of skin cancer is far less emphasized. The MMWR did a survey of knowledge o .....

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Euthanasia
Number of words: 344 - Number of pages: 2

.... doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life through mercy killing, if the patient has made a formal request in writing?" As you can see, when a case is not immediately life threatening, the general publics answer is mixed. The people who answered no may be thinking of treatment that has not been tried yet or treatment that may come in the future due to new technologies. Medical Advancements: During the last 20 years, technological advancement has increased more than the advancement of the whole time of man before that. People that have the no opinion on euthanasia may b .....

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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
Number of words: 2425 - Number of pages: 9

.... in the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the defenceless patient remains 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. Occasi .....

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Color Blindless
Number of words: 692 - Number of pages: 3

.... of that color. This form is even rarer than the "typical" monochro-matism. Another, more common, form of color blindness is called dichromatism. People with di-chromatic vision tend to confuse red, green, and gray, but can easily distinguish blue and yellow. Some cannot even see the longest wavelengths of light -- the red end. Though it is rare, others cannot see the short wavelengths, near the violet end. These people tend to confuse blue, yellow, and gray, but not red and green. Normal vision is called trichromatism. Most color blind people have a version of trichro-matism called an .....

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Restraints On Alzheimer Patients
Number of words: 1132 - Number of pages: 5

.... (p.65). At that time in my nursing career in the mid-90s, I was a new graduate nurse; I had minimal experience dealing in the clinical setting with confused patients and the use of restraints. However, I have had theory on the subject "restraints", and was familiar with the types of restraints, such as; physical, chemical, manual and mechanical, but I was unfamiliar with the proper use of these devices. I decided to educate myself further on this issue and was amazed that my nursing textbooks contained little information regarding the use of restraints and the treatment of patients in c .....

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Suicide In Jails
Number of words: 1429 - Number of pages: 6

.... of the research shows that "of all [jail] suicides occur within the first twenty four hours of incarceration, and an overwhelming number of these take place in the first three hours of isolation which is referred to as the “crisis period" (Hess 1987). The crisis period is reflective of arrest and incarceration as producing extreme confusion, fear, and anxiety. The crisis period is also the result of isolation. Isolation causes an individual to lose all social support systems. Placing an individual in isolation may be a form of protection, but this gives the individual an opportuni .....

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