SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Applications of Orthopedic Sports Medicine

Essays 271 - 300

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine

in fact no particular system that is called holism (1999). Rather, holistic medicine is really alternative. At the same time, ther...

Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

The Tradition of Chinese Medicine

of traditional Chinese medicine, it is important to also understand that it is not only a collection of ancient remedies and pract...

Incorporation of Allopathic and Holistic Methods

cohabitation. Taking the lead from traditional medicine, alternative options incorporate drug therapy with several other modaliti...

Rehabilitation, Exercise, and Osteopathic Knowledge

the various parts of the body. It is important to understand and convey the information that in the osteopathic theory of medicine...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Ethics and Bio-Medicine

decease to reproduce after death" (p. 362). This is definitely the inferred wish - Mrs. D., in fact, was pretty emphatic about it....

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Medicine and Morality in Haiti The Contest for Healing Power by Paul Brodwin

and Morality in Haiti is the culmination of Brodwins year-and-a-half anthropological research into the southern portion of the reg...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Medicine and Physics

by many" (Gould, 2003). By design, the equipment is seven feet tall by seven feet wide by ten feet long, considered by some to be...

Medicine and Technology

patient shows up in a physicians office with symptoms resembling those associated with a rare bone infection, the physician can fi...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

Western Medicine and Women's Health

In ten pages this paper examines women's health and the Western medical system from historical and feminist perspectives. Ten sou...

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

Traditional Medicine versus Alternative Health Care

inasmuch as drug therapy is the treatment of choice for traditional practitioners. Quoting Dr. Jeffrey Lowrey, Baptist Minor Medi...

A One-Chapter Analysis of Louise Erdrich's Novel, Love Medicine

This paper analyzes the structure and thematic elements seen in the second chapter of Erdrich's novel. This five page paper has o...

Using Animals for Research in Medicine

In a paper consisting of five pages the writer argues that using animals for medical research purposes is necessary because doing ...

Native American Identity Struggles in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In seven pages these novels are compared in terms of how each features the Native American identity struggle with similarities and...

Spiritual Home in the Novels Beloved, Love is Medicine and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In eight pags this paper examines the meaning of a spiritual home in these three works of fiction. There are no additional source...

AIDS and Socialized Medicine

This paper consists of five pages and examines the topic of whether financial responsibility for AIDS sufferers should be assumed ...

Review of Medicine and Culture by Lynn Payer and Kerr L. White

In three pages this text is reviewed as it compares medical system diversity in three European countries and the U.S. There are no...

Medicine and the Effects of Rainforest Depletion

In six pages this paper discusses the protection of plants for medicinal purposes in an examination of the dangers posed by defore...