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Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Sherpa People and High Altitude Cultures and Physiological Responses

Acute mountain sickness (AMS)is one of the more common illnesses that inflict travelers to high altitudes (Jansen, Krins, and Basn...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Stress and Its Effects

In seven pages this literature review incorporates the hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow in an examination of stress and...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

Human Body and the Impact of Stress

shown to disrupt the metabolism, either speeding it up or slowing it down. There has been recognition of the speeding up of the me...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Sleep's Physiological Stages

individuals begins a backward progression from stage 4 through stage 2 (Appling, 1997). It is during this period that the sleeper...

Terrorists' Interrogation

several of them were personally subjected to in the waning days of Vietnam? Or should interrogators acknowledge above all that th...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Nutrition Concerns in AIDS

at best, death usually occurs within a few months to a few years after the virus attack on the human system. Maintaining proper n...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Impacts of Methamphetamine

demand because it is cheap and easily available. It is cheap and easily available because it is so easy to manufacture. Methamph...

Defining Physiological Psychology

Banduras (1986) theory also addresses gender issues and how they span a significant range of behavioral concerns based upon perfor...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

Anorexia: Informational Essay

be anemia, light-headedness and swollen joints. Reduced muscle mass is also a danger for anorexics; if the disorder becomes sever...

Maintaining Balance with Form and Function in Physiology

glands because they are more vascular and have no ducts. The hormones that they produce are stored in their vacuoles or granules ...

Animals Retaining Water and Antidiuretic Hormones

In seven pages the antidiuretic hormone's physiological role in the retention of water in animal kidneys is examined. Ten sources...

From Arousal to Orgasm in Human Sexuality

In five pages this paper examines what a man and woman's physiological and biological processes are as they become sexually arouse...

ADHD and Behavior Therapy

In five pages treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder through behavior therapy and its benefits are discussed in ter...

Sociological, Physiological, and Psychological Issues Associated with the Management of Stress

tooth tiger of prehistoric humans stress stimulators. Modern human hunter and gatherers deal with stress agents such as repeatedly...

Performance of Black Sprinters

In a literature review consisting of fifteen pages the thesis that physiological differences that are racially specific is present...

Sociological, Physiological, and Psychological Issues of Stress and Stress Management

In eight pages this report examines stress and stress management from sociological, psychological, and physiological perspectives....