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Abortion: Life Or Death Who Chooses?
<view this essay>.... individual 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 those wh .....
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Laws Against Assisted Suicide In Canada
<view this essay>.... made possible through this medicide, regarded as immoral
for years, affects not only the patient but their immediate and distant
relatives as well. Kevorkian told a judicial court the same one day in late
April, early May: "Suicide is not the aim. Eliminating suffering is the aim, but
you pay a price with the loss of a life." Although Kevorkian's methods have
succeeded with some difficulty, in the USA, their northern neighbour, our great
dominion of Canada, disallows the administration of this relieving practice. In
our grand country assisted suicide is illegal.
Cases of other terminally ill persons have surfaced throughout the news,
the most promin .....
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Alzheimers Disease
<view this essay>.... called neuritic plaques (clusters of degenerating
nerve cell ends) and neurofibrillary tangles (masses of twisted filaments which
accumulate in previously health nerve cells). The cortex (thinking center) of
the brain shrinks (atrophies), The spaces in the center of the brain become
enlarged, also reducing surface area in the brain.
What are the symptoms of Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease is a
dementing illness which leads to loss of intellectual capacity. Symptoms usually
occur in older adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be
affected) and include loss of language skills such as trouble finding words,
problems with abstract thinking .....
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Cystic Fibrosis Of The Pancreas
<view this essay>.... that it often
obstructs the bronchi and other organ passages. The widespread obstruction
give rise to most of the symptoms and anatomical findings in the disease.
The sweat glands are affected in a different way. They produce sweat that
has an abnormally high salt content.
Cystic fibrosis is due to an inborn error of metabolism that is
inherited as a recessive trait. In families where both parents ae carriers,
approximately 25% of all the offspring will have the diswase, although the
incidence may vary from one family to the next. The disease is relatively
common to Caucasions, usually among Negroes, and very rare in Mongolians.
In the United States, abo .....
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Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"
<view this essay>.... who goes through stress, denial, anger and depression eventually comes to an inaccessible for many state of acceptance. Let’s follow incrementally the succession of her responses occurring throughout her sickness.
The AIDS test was ordered almost spontaneously, and the result was not implied to be positive. A woman had reasons for having symptoms, and age and 14hr workday could easily explain the latter. Fatigue was not suspicious, similarly the rush didn’t seem to present a serious danger. Therefore, the “news” struck her and threw into a state of a shock: “My hands and feet went ice cold. I thought I would lose control of my bowels. I stood up and starte .....
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Physician Assisted Suicide
<view this essay>.... right to decide whether or not to end his or her life with the help of a licensed medical doctor. There have been many cases over the years where a terminally ill patient who is mentally competent has made the choice to either partake in physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. “Physician-assisted suicide occurs when the physician provides the patient with the means and/or knowledge to commit suicide”(Death and Dying,91). “Euthanasia is when the physician administers the death causing drug or agent”(Death and Dying,92). The most recent case is that of The State of Florida v. Charles Hall. “Charles Hall is dying of AIDS and challenged the State of Florida .....
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Magnetic Therapy
<view this essay>.... thousands of years to when they were used by Greek, Persian and Chinese physicians. These physicians used magnetic rocks, now called lodestones, to treat conditions such as gout and muscle spasm (Borsa, p. 150; Meyer 1997). In the early 1500s, Paracelsus, a physician in Greece, thought that magnets were effective therapeutically due to their ability to attract iron. He hypothesized that because of this capability, they would also be able to leach diseases from the body. However, Paracelsus was also very aware of the tendency the human mind has in playing a role in the healing process:
"The spirit of the master, the imagination is the instrument, the body is .....
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Drug Dependence
<view this essay>.... 100,000 from misuse of alcohol, and 20,000 from use of
illicit drugs. Many of the adverse health effects associated with the use of
tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs result from long-term use caused by
substance dependence (i.e., addiction)---a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and
physiological symptoms indicating sustained psychoactive substance use despite
substance-related problems. In addition, substance dependence is characterized
by repeated self-administration that usually results in tolerance, withdrawal,
and compulsive drug-taking behavior. Nicotine is the psychoactive substance in
cigarettes and other forms of tobacco that accounts for the a .....
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