Papers on Health and Medicine
My Viewpoint Regarding Abortions
Words: 469 - Pages: 2.... in abortion but by saying that you are taking
away a woman's freedom of choice. A woman should have the right to choose
if she wants to have an abortion. Your viewpoint does not acknowledge a
woman's right to freedom of choice. I agree with your opinion, that the
fetus is a human and that it has a right to life and that is why I believe
in early abortions.
I feel that your viewpoint would cause many problems. One problem
is that your viewpoint allows no abortions, that allows no consideration
for the mother of the family that would be effected by that child. Also,
pro-lifers do not agree with sex-education in schools this would lead .....
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Hemophilia
Words: 341 - Pages: 2.... thought to be caused by spontaneous gene
mutation with no family history. This is how females are able to be affected
by hemophilia. Inheritance is controlled by a recessive sex-linked factor
carried by the mother on the X chromosome. There is a fifty percent chance that
the sons of a female carrier will have hemophilia. There also is a fifty
percent chance that the daughters of a female carrier will be carriers of
hemophilia. In addition, all daughters of men with hemophilia are carriers, but
his sons are unaffected. Men cannot transmit hemophilia, and female carriers
are free of the disease.
Hemophilia is the most common .....
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The Cystic Fibrosis Gene
Words: 2157 - Pages: 8.... to finding the gene that is responsible for
causing a genetic disease has been to first characterize the bio-chemical
defect within the gene, then to identify the mutated protein in the gene of
interest, and finally to locate the actual gene. However, this classical
approach proved to be impractical when searching for the CF gene. To find
the gene responsible for CF, the principle of "reverse genetics" was
applied. Scientists accomplished this by linking the disease to a specific
chromosome. After this linkage, they isolated the gene of interest on the
chromosome and then tested its product.
Before the disease could be linked to a specifi .....
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Alcoholism
Words: 487 - Pages: 2.... development of . These include family conflict, divorce, and job security. Other problems reported in children of alcoholic parents include hyperactivity, school problems, antisocial behavior, and drug use. Studies indicate that children of alcoholics have an increased risk of even when they have no exposure to drinking parents.
Next, the effects of alcohol on the human body depend on the amount of alcohol in the blood. The higher the alcohol content of the beverage, the more alcohol will enter the bloodstream. The amount and type of food in the stomach also affect the absorption rate; drinking when the stomach is filled is less intoxicat .....
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Theories Of Knowledge And Psychological Applications
Words: 3137 - Pages: 12.... as computing machines, the basic model of a self-organizing
network (Arbib, 1995).
In 1943 McCulloch and Pitts published their model theory ( Arbib, 1995). In
1948 Rashevsky proposed a number of neural network models to explain
psychological phenomena. During this era not enough was known about the brain,
subsequently he was considered ahead of his time. Rashevsky relied heavily upon
complex mathematical equations within his model, consequently many people simply
did not understand his theoretical perspective ( Martindale, 1991). In 1958
Rosenblatt proposed his theory on neural network models which focused on
perception. The theor .....
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Cognitive Development In Children: Experiment
Words: 784 - Pages: 3.... She (he) is
called to dinner. She (he) starts to go into the dining room, but behind the
door there is a chair: On the chair is a tray with 15 cups on it. Susan (Jim)
doesn't know that all of this is behind the door. She (he) pushes on the door,
the door knocks against the tray, and bang, goes the 15 cups! They are all
broken.
B. A girl (boy) named Mary (Robert) wants to get some candies. But her (his)
mother tells her (him) that she (he) can't have any more candies, and she (he)
leaves. But Mary (Robert) wants a candy, so she (he) climbs up on a chair and
reaches up to the shelf. But she (he) knocks over one cup and it falls on the .....
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Death
Words: 840 - Pages: 4.... would even come near me. Last year in May, my sister, dad, and I were driving down to California. And it was about seven o'clock in the morning and my sister was driving. Then she fell asleep and starting driving off the road. She swerved back on the road really hard, which made the car flip over four times. Then we were rushed to the hospital and stayed there for about an hour. My sister and I were all right but my dad was in critical condition. My dad ended up only loosing his pinky finger. Just being in that situation made my outlook on life and different. I couldn't bear the fact that my dad would be gone forever. Being a Christ .....
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If Saccharin Is Safe, Why Does It Require A Warning Label?
Words: 1081 - Pages: 4.... the source of the sweetness was saccharin. A process for synthesizing saccharin was soon created, and commercial production of saccharin began in 1900 (Beck).
Saccharin is an accepted replacement for cane sugar, and is now the most widely used sweetener in the world. This fact is alarming because although the mild carcinogenic has been deemed safe for human consumption, several studies have linked the chemical to bladder cancer. If the chemical were truly safe, it would not require a warning label on products that contain it.
Despite the fact that the United States government has deemed saccharin safe, in actuality, it should be banned u .....
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Abortion: A Matter Of Choice
Words: 2536 - Pages: 10.... who turned to the illegal abortions --either self-inflicted or preformed by the backroom "professionals"-- which resulted in infection, massive blood loss, and death. It is better now that they have a place to go where abortions can be performed cleanly and with minimal risk.
Legalization of abortion is the only choice no matter what side one takes in the debate. Women will try to do what they think is necessary to live as they wish, no matter what the risk. In order to live as she chooses a woman may give up her freedom, her morals, her beliefs, her family, or even her life. Abortion has been around for thousands of years in every inhabite .....
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Flash Memory
Words: 1787 - Pages: 7.... all sorts of other behaviors.
The means of personality disorder is on purpose. False memory syndrome is
especially destructive because the person carefully avoids any confrontation
what so ever 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 mod .....
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