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Two Sides Of The Brain
Number of words: 1112 - Number of pages: 5.... left side of the body and
leans more to the creative, the intuitive. It is concerned more with the
visual and emotional side of life.
Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with
their left brain. In fact, many of us think we are our left brains. All
of that non-stop verbalization that goes on in our heads is the dominant
left brain talking to itself. Our culture- particularly our school system
with its emphasis on the three Rs (decidedly left-brain territory) -
effectively represses the intuitive and artistic right brain. If you don't
believe it, see how far .....
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Euthanasia Is Religious, Medically, And Legally Wrong
Number of words: 1358 - Number of pages: 5.... the United States, euthanasia was voted on for the first time in the state
of Washington. Although polls before the vote revealed strong support for
it,the ballot was defeated by fifty-four to forty-six percent,and euthanasia
remains illegal in Noth America. In addition to violating civil law,euthanasia
also contradicts the laws of many religions of the world. It is God who
controlls life and death. Man will take this responsibility if euthanasia is
permitted. It is stated in the ten commandments,"Do not commit murder". Murder
can take many forms,one of which is suicide,the taking of .....
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Health Care: Elderly
Number of words: 1197 - Number of pages: 5.... was chosen to be responsible for questionnaire review, communication with physicians, and further assessment and intervention when deemed necessary. Lists of patients 65 and older were generated from the caseloads of primary care physicians from the three hospital sites. The questionnaires were mailed out with physicians cover letters and consent forms in the summer of 1993. In the questionnaire patients were asked to assess their self-percieved notions of there medical and psychosocial needs, as well as the level of their functioning. Upon reciept of the completed questionnaires .....
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Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Number of words: 4437 - Number of pages: 17.... 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, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the
fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, a .....
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AIDS: US Made?
Number of words: 1561 - Number of pages: 6.... cannot be produced and
the defenseless 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.
After several years, the pre-AIDS stage, known as ARC (Aids- Related
Complex) sets in. This stage includes disorders in the digesti .....
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The History Of Medicine
Number of words: 1138 - Number of pages: 5.... acts of previous monkeys, the first casts were
made of dried mud put directly on wounds. Fire brought not only burns, but
cautery .
Civilization came to be around 12,000 BC. Diseases were treated if
minor with domestic remedies such as diet, herbs, plasters, and massage.
Often, if the case was severe, the patient was killed to relieve the
community of his burden, or the healer was summoned. Old shaman's
techniques were more based on myth and magic. Magic was man's first
attempt to understand nature. Defensive magic used fetishes (objects
endowed with magical powers), amulets ( .....
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Managing People With AIDS
Number of words: 2934 - Number of pages: 11.... challenges to employers.
HOW AIDS IS TRANSMITTED
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the retrovirus that causes AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. While AIDS itself does not kill a person, the disease weakens the person’s immune system, allowing other diseases like Kaposi’s sarcoma invade the body. These opportunistic diseases eventually overwhelm the person’s body. The virus is found in blood and other body products like saliva, sweat, and tears, and can only be transmitted by the exchange of blood, body products, or by sexual contact. Once the HIV virus is exposed to .....
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Work Stress
Number of words: 3014 - Number of pages: 11.... as 70%
of patients that are treated by general practitioners are suffering from
symptoms originating from stress . Everyone experiences stress, however, each
person responds to stress very differently. Their response is dependent on how
each person reacts to stress emotionally, mentally, and physically. There are,
however, common effects of stress for most people on the physical and mental
body.
2.1 Physical Effects
The researcher Blyth in 1973 identified a list of diseases which have a fairly
high causal relationships with stress. His evidence was obtained through
interviews with .....
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Euthanasia
Number of words: 1913 - Number of pages: 7.... more so than the very divisive issue of abortion. Euthanasia is morally
and ethically wrong and should be banned in these United States. Modern
medicine has evolved by leaps and bounds recently, euthanasia resets these
medical advances back by years and reduces today's Medical Doctors to
administrators of death.
Euthanasia defined
The term Euthanasia is used generally to refer to an easy or painless
death. Voluntary euthanasia involves a request by the dying patient or that
person's legal representative. Passive or negative euthanasia involves not
doing something to prevent death—tha .....
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Wolfgang Kohler's Experiment And Insight Learning
Number of words: 517 - Number of pages: 2.... flash of sudden inspiration,
fitted the two sticks together and pulled in the banana. Kohler was impressed
by Sultan's rapid “perception of relationships” and used the term insight to
describe it. He noted that such insights are not learned gradually through
reinforced trials. They seemed to occur in a flash when the elements a problem
are set up appropriately.
In another experiment boxes were put in a room with a banana hanging
from the ceiling. The chimps found out that they could stack the boxes on top
of one another to reach the banana without being taught to do it.
It was .....
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