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Alzheimer's Disease
<view this essay>.... were present when
comparing the normal brain to the Alzheimer's brain. There was a loss of nerve
cells from the Cerebral Cortex in the Alzheimer's victim. Approximately ten
percent of the neurons in this region were lost. But a ten percent loss is
relatively minor, and cannot account for the severe impairment suffered by
Alzheimer's victims. Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of
Alzheimer's victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in
the cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other
diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's
Syndrome, and Dementia Pugili .....
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Nursing: Lifting, Transferring And Positioning Of Patients
<view this essay>.... capabilities. This, combined with incorrect lifting techniques,
can result in muscle strain, or more seriously, spinal injury for the nurse, and
discomfort, muscle strain or further injury for the patient.
INTRODUCTION
When lifting, transferring or positioning patients, the most important
consideration is safety. Any of these procedures need to be undertaken with it
in mind. This safety is inclusive of both the patient and the health care
worker. Communication is an important part of the lifting process as the nurse
should elicit information from the client to find out how and when they prefer
to be moved. This allows the patient to be involved in .....
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Abortion - Right To Choose
<view this essay>.... to abort her fetus. The people that hold a "pro-life" view argue that a woman who has an abortion is killing a child. The "pro-choice" perspective holds this is not the case. A fetus is not yet a baby. It does not posess the criteria derived from our understanding of living human beings. In a notable defense of this position, philosopher Mary Anne Warren has proposed the following criteria for "person-hood": 1) consciousness (of objects and events external and or internal to the being), and in particular the capacity to feel pain. 2) reasoning (the developed capacity to solve new and relatively complex problems) 3) self-motivated activity (activity which is .....
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Flash Memory
<view this essay>.... characterized by false memories alone. We all have
memories that are inaccurate. Instead, the syndrome may be diagnosed when the
memory is so severely disoriented that it changes the individual's entire
personality and lifestyle, therefore, disrupting 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
m .....
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Chinese Medicine
<view this essay>.... as well as the causes and development of disease, show large
differences when compared with Western medicine.(2)
The Chinese do not think of theory, as we do in the West, as needing to
be proven to reach the highest degree of truth. A Chinese doctor can look at
the kidney as a machine and think of it as a reflection of universe.(2) He can
apply two different disease classification systems, cold damage or warm damage
where he feels it is appropriate, without being deterred by contradictions
between the two.(3)
One (Western) method of gaining knowledge is analysis. It is the method
of breaking things into component parts to understand the whole .....
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Vitamins
<view this essay>.... to an animal.
In 1906, the British biochemist Sir. Frederick Hopkins demonstrated that
foods contain accessory factors in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats,
minerals and water. Then, in 1912, thee chemist Casimir Funk identified that
the antiberiberi substance in unpolished rice was an amine (a type of
Nitrogen-containing compound), so Funk proposed that it be named vitamine, from
vital amine. It was later discovered that different vitamins have different
chemical properties. This discovery caused vitamine to be turned into vitamin.
In 1912 Hopkins and Funk made a hypothesis. The hypothesis stated the
absence of some vitamin .....
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Euthanasia Term Paper
<view this essay>.... god. They usurp the divine function, and interfere with the divine
plan.
Euthanasia is the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who
have incurable , painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It come
from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy
killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask
their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients
or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no do .....
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Depression
<view this essay>.... ancient Greek physician Hippocrates described the symptoms of his “melancholy” patients to what we call today, clinical or endogenous (Dawson 199). It hasn’t been until recent times that any mental illness has been understood as a disease. wasn’t regarded on the same level as other diseases until the publication of Pinel’s Traile medico-philosophique sur l’alienation mentale ou la manie in 1801 (Murphy 127). This documentation caused extensive research on mental illness for the next fifty years. During that time large numbers of asylums for the mentally ill were established, and the search was on to understand and treat mental illnesses (Macpherson 368) .....
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