Papers on Health and Medicine
The Education Of A.I.D.S Discrimination
Words: 1606 - Pages: 6.... of an employee with
A.I.D.S is also the work grounds for someone who isn'tinfected with A.I.D.S.
A.I.D.S Discrimination in a job-related atmosphere is due to lack of education
and sensitivity.
The infection of HIV does not reduce an employee'sefficiency from
satisfactory to intolerable. An employee should not be denied employment or
promotion if they are not flawed by HIV. Some employees are not stripped of
their capacities to perform even though they are infected with HIV(Lewy 2). Why
should the employee health benefits be altered because of the nature of the
disease. The majority of employee policies offered cover catastrophic .....
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The Digestive Track
Words: 333 - Pages: 2.... about while digestive
juices pour int from glands in the stomach wall. Eventually, the the churning
action moves food out of the stomach and into the small intestine. The lever
contributes to this digestive process by secreting into the small intestine, a
liquid called bile. The pancreas secretes pancreatic juice which further aids
in dissolving food.
The small intestine undergoes continual muscular contractions called
peristalses. This action pushes food into the large intestine. This surface of
the small intestine has a large number of threadlike projections called villi.
The digested, liquified food is absorbed through the villi, .....
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Hypnosis
Words: 1459 - Pages: 6.... At the command of the hypnotist, subjects may lose all feeling in
a place on the body, and any kind of pain will not cause them any pain. The
heartbeat can be slowed or quickened, and a rise in temperature and perspiration
can be created. They can be commanded to experience visual or auditory
hallucinations or live the past as if it were the present. Also, recently a
scientist discovered that the way the subject's mind experiences time can be
altered so that hours or even weeks can pass in second, from the subjects point
of view. Subjects may forget part or all of the hypnotic experience or recall
things that they had f .....
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Euthanasia: An Overview
Words: 1599 - Pages: 6.... immoral.
Opponents arguments against euthanasia which fail to substantiate their claims,
many proponents arguments highlighted by the right to autonomy, and empirical
examples of legalized euthanasia all prove the moral legitimacy of physician-
assisted-suicide.
Opponents of euthanasia generally point to three main arguments which I
will mention only for the purposes of refuting them. First, many cite the
Hippocratic oath which reads, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked,
nor suggest any such counsel" as a reason to oppose euthanasia. Clearly, the
Hippocratic oath does condemn the practice, however, I do not find .....
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Death
Words: 343 - Pages: 2.... infected mother's milk.
Currently there is no cure for AIDS, however research is showing hopeful
signs. Research has made breakthroughs the past years and have come up with ways
to slow things down, but not cure AIDS.
There are many ways to prevent AIDS. I believe the leading way is
abstinence. No sex until your sure of your sexual partners past sexual history
should you consider sex. If you must have sex then have safe sex. Safe sex
includes using any instrument or object which does not allow bodily fluids to be
exchanged. Preventing AIDS is something we all can do. No one is forced to have
sex (unless raped), no one is forced to do .....
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
Words: 1433 - Pages: 6.... to be the cause.The hypothalamus determines hunger and satiety.They
can’t fell satiety,so they always have a urge to eat.Some PWS cases are so out
of control thay will eat bottlecaps,glass,pencils,garbage,bugs,dogfood, and
anything else they can stuff in their mouths.
"The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining
edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing
may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing
food"(Finey,1983).
PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both males and females
equally and is found in people of all races and .....
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Philosophy - Abortion Rectitude
Words: 2839 - Pages: 11.... deemed unacceptable. To the best of
our knowledge, we as humans are the only species in existence 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 depriv .....
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Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
Words: 545 - Pages: 2.... a certain age is not a stupid person, they are just ignorant to some information that has not been presented to them. This can be determined by several different factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened to appear on an IQ, Mary would be considered the smarter one. B .....
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Definition Of Job Burn Out
Words: 2245 - Pages: 9.... current attitude and their original optimistic expectations about their potential contributions…" (Cordes & Dougherty, p.624).
Job burn out is best known for occurring among professionals, such as lawyers, nurses and doctors, who often spend large amounts of time in close, and sometimes highly emotional, contact with their clients (Schaufeli & Buunk, 1996). In some workplace situations people do not have all the resources they need, such as time, to do the job as well as they would like. If the employee has a high level of emotional involvement with the job this situation can lead to job burn out; the person is frustrated because they .....
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Teen Smoking
Words: 537 - Pages: 2.... the same time. "U.S. News discussed the smoking issue with
twenty teenagers from suburban Baltimore. Half were boys, half girls, and all
were between the ages of fifteen and seventeen. Over more than four hours of
conversation, it became clear that most teens smoked for two seemingly
contradictory reasons: They want to be part of a peer group, while rejecting
society and its norms. They want to reach out and rebel at the same
time."(Roberts 38) Tobacco companies spend four billion dollars each year in
advertising and promotional costs and claim there is no health risk. Six hundred
thousand people die every year from smoking related illnes .....
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