Papers on Health and Medicine
Abortion
Words: 969 - Pages: 4.... babies that are being killed are not just worthless fetuses. They are tiny little humans beings. A tiny six week old unborn baby has forty six chromosomes in every cell which is the scientifically verifiable human genetic code and he has brain waves that can be measured. The end of human life can be defined as the moment when brain waves cease but many ignore the scientific evidence of brain waves in unborn babies. As small as seven weeks old a baby can swim freely in the amniotic sack. At nine weeks, the baby is extremely active and begins swallowing. When the baby is ten to eleven weeks old he is sensitive to touch and will grab an obj .....
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Words: 946 - Pages: 4.... the impression of Borderline Personality Disorder.” The reason for
this is because some of the symptoms of Borderline patients are like the
characteristics of adolescence. Examples of these would be uncertainty of
life and career choices, sexual promiscuity, and substance abuse. However,
those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these
symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, .....
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Small Pox
Words: 1780 - Pages: 7.... contact.
It is passed through the nose where tiny particles are released when the
infected person sneezes, also by the mouth where particles are once again
ejected when the victim coughs. The disease can be transmitted by dried small
pox scabs and through materials the infected person has come in contact with.
The virus is reproduced in the lymphoid tissue and released into the body.
Virus reproduction begins when the virion comes into contact with a suitable
host cell. The virus must interact with a receptor on the cell surface. The
infectious cycle usually consists of two stages. The first stage makes the
proteins necessary for the .....
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A Look Into Alzheimer's Disease
Words: 638 - Pages: 3.... seven years of painful suffering, he died.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease are rather easy to distinguish and classify. Patients of the disease lose much of the information that they have recently learned and cannot learn anything new. They begin to constantly misplace objects, often repeat themselves, and usually become confused in simple situations. When in relatively simplex places patients may become lost or even forget where they are. Psychologically however, patients begin to become depressed most of the time and be anxious or confused. Some become restless and can barely ever sleep.
The cause of the disease, although not completel .....
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Abortion
Words: 372 - Pages: 2.... is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of
the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and
gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any
better. Only a small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable
parents. But the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is
little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education
because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be
unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs
and crimes. These individuals are also very violent, lacking morality due
smal .....
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The History Of Medicine
Words: 1138 - Pages: 5.... and even cannibalism. Tools used as
weapons were being used to make incisions. Licking and sucking were
replaced by bloodletting , scarification , amputation, and surgery with
stone tools. Copying the 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 .....
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Alcoholism: Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, Patient And Deadly
Words: 1933 - Pages: 8.... preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite
adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial.
The rational for continued use of alcohol is centered on,
Common addiction distortions.
MENTAL FILTER:
Magnify the negative details and eliminate the positive. E.g. -
using alcohol is so incredible. It is the most pleasurable thing I know.
(filter out the negative effects)
POLARIZED THINKING:
Things are black and white, good or bad. You are perfect or a
complete failure. E.g. - My life would be void of pleasure with out alcohol.
OVERGENERALIZATION:
To come to a general conclusion based on a sing .....
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The Partial Birth Abortion Debate
Words: 898 - Pages: 4.... pre-born baby boy. She testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee (11/17/95) about what she witnessed. According to Shafer, the baby was alive and moving as the abortionist: "delivered the baby's 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 .....
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Abortion: Life Or Death Ä Who Chooses?
Words: 4436 - Pages: 17.... own
protection, have been accused of having a 19th Century approach to life in the
last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments of a
bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible 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 .....
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Mobile Phone Risks
Words: 1521 - Pages: 6.... that has the antenna in the handset. In this case, the antenna is very close to the user's head during normal use of the telephone and there is concern about the level of microwave emissions to which the brain is being exposed. Those telephones that have the antenna mounted elsewhere are of no concern, since exposure levels decrease rapidly with increasing distance from the antenna. Cordless telephones, which need to be operated within about 20 metres of a base unit that is connected directly to the telephone system, do not have any health concerns associated with their use because exposure levels are very low. .
Media reports hav .....
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