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» Health and Medicine Essays and Papers
Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
<view this essay>.... human being?
The unborn human is still a human life and not all the wishful
thinking of those advocating repeal of abortion laws, can alter this. Those
of us who would seek to protect the human who is still to small to cry
aloud for it's 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 th .....
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
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subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has a lot of
professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
AIDS FACTS
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced
back to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also
called 'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of
antibodies 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
infection .....
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Eating Right And For The Right Reasons
<view this essay>.... her parents to pay for her living expenses. She baby-sits every once in a while, and only has 12 units of school. She is about 5’6” and weighs about 120 lbs.. The two men that I studied were different in that one was white and one was of Filipino descent. They both are about the same age 23 and 24, and they both came from your average American middle-class home. Male A is 23 years old and he is the white male. He lives with two other guys about the same age as he is. He is from Stockton and grew up there his whole life in a middle-class home, but received a private and exclusive education at Catholic school. He does work a little and he gets most of .....
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The Argument Against Female Circumcision
<view this essay>.... are forbidden from many of the Arab countries that practice
female circumcision. In a selection from The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in
the Arab World (1980), she explains her argument against female
circumcision and retells some interviews she had with women who underwent
the operation.
El Saadawi goes into detail telling about the procedure that the
girls underwent in her culture, usually around the age of seven or eight.
The local midwife called the daya, would show up to perform the operation.
In most cases two women members of the family would hold the girl by her
thighs to expose her genitals and to prevent struggling. Then the daya
would proceed to cu .....
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Ban Smoking
<view this essay>.... problems breathing
and will most likely be in poor health. One out of four deaths of people
thirty-five to sixty-four years old result from smoking. On the average,
every cigarette takes five and a half minutes of life away from a smoker.
(Bartecchi, 46) Although restrictions have been placed on the use of
cigarettes in public areas such as restaurants and airplanes, the US has
yet to place a ban on smoking. The government frequently inspects items
sold to the American public. Commercial products that may be dangerous such
as food, cars, and toys have been recalled in order for alterations. In the
August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty-four products wer .....
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Euthanasia In Canada
<view this essay>.... euthanasia must be acceptable in specific circumstances.
Politicians, and the courts, claim that the country is not yet ready for
such a climate. The characterization of pro-euthanasia advocates by their
counterparts as selfish, taking the easy way out, diserespectful of life,
and challenging human dignity is misconstrued. Pro-euthanasia groups
advocate self-dignity, personal choice, economic well-being, happiness,
family support, and individual rights.
The word euthanasia simply means good death, but has come to mean
causing death with intent, whether by doing something (commission), or by
omitting something(omission). Euphemisms of the pro-euthanasia m .....
Number of words: 1328 | Number of pages: 5 |
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Albinism
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Tyrosinase related protein TRP-1 gene OCA3 chromosome 9
Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome HPS1 gene HPS chromosome 10
Chediak-Higashi Syndrome CHS1 gene CHS chromosome 1
Ocular albinism OA1 gene OA chromosome X
You can find this information at http://www.cbc.umn.edu/tad/genes.htm
* The above information is from the website http://www.albinism.org./report.html
There are many symptoms to the genetic disorder known as Albinism. One symptom is a lighter skin color. If an African person has the disease they might appear to be white. Another symptom is pinkness to the eyes. This pinkness can cause poor vision and even blindness. White hair is als .....
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Work Stress
<view this essay>.... on the evidence for the harmful effects of stress at
work, both mentally and physically. The last section will briefly explain why
management should be concerned with rising employee stress and will describe
some actions management can take to alleviate work stress.
2.0 Harmful Effects of Stress
Most research studies indicate a high correlation between stress and illness.
According to authorities in the United States and Great Britain, as much 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 respo .....
Number of words: 3014 | Number of pages: 11 |
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