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Controversy over the Use of Placebos

treatment, tell your doctor. It is important that a patient have confidence in the doctor, and it is then more likely the placebo...

Ethical Considerations with Regard to Randomized Clinical Trials

depression, schizophrenia, etc. (Weijer and Anderson, 2001). These trials are justified via the rationalization that such...

Placebo Performance and Instructional Quality

In a paper of seven pages, the writer looks at placebo effectiveness. The role that expectation plays in placebo outcome is explor...

New Medications for Bipolar Disorder/A Research Proposal

bipolar disorder will participate in this study. Diagnostic procedures will include DSM-IV multiaxial evaluation, physical examina...

Overview of the Placebo Effect

cure a disease or disorder, and the patient gets better by taking a pill without the tested medication, that speaks volumes abut t...

The Impact of Technology in Preschool

(Schmid, Miodrag and Di Francesco, 2008; Chatel, 2005; Macpherson, 2005; Weikle and Hadadian, 2003). Does this media help or hinde...

Controversy: Death Penalty

in "cases involving a person who is convicted of multiple first-degree intentional homicides, if the homicides are vicious and the...

Copyright and Music Streams

when an artists music is played via streaming audio, what is their expectation as far as royalties go? It seems as if royalties ar...

Consideration of Do Not Resuscitate Orders

theyre ordered with the patients ... consent and theyre appropriate to the patients condition and prognosis" (Salladay, 2003, p. 2...

An Argument for Vaccination Against Cervical Cancer

eradicate them. The defense response staged by our immune system includes the production of antibodies, blood proteins th...

The Controversy of Artificial Intelligence

in understanding the underlying basis of intelligence and cognition, some with an emphasis on unraveling the mysteries of human th...

Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Church Reviewed

"New Evangelicalism," the religion that bases its teachings on the New Testament and Christs Word, and how to best frame the Bible...

Benefits Of Profiling In Fighting Terrorism

to become terrorists also share certain characteristics, traits, and backgrounds. One of the challenges in arguing for the pract...

Study Analysis/Topical Cream for Osteoarthritis

control group. Inclusion criteria was based on the ACR diagnostic guidelines for making an OA diagnosis. Patients with open lesio...

Healing and the Significance of Ritual and Belief

does not register the injury, then the pain is not perceived or at the very least, is not as severe. Pain is therefore subjective...

Assessing Ethics in Research

has been demonstrated to increase as the patients own baseline in terms of their general irritability and hostility increases, and...

The Increased Effectiveness of Placebos

fake medications frequently exhibit their power to bring about beneficial effects (Silberman). Psychiatrist William Potter began r...

Miracle Drugs and Placebo Effect Applications

In five pages the placebo effect and miracle drug concepts are considered in this examination of health inequities, infectious dis...

A Critique on Acupunture versus Placebo Article

procedure, or it will not, or it will be inconclusive. Study Variables Dependent : The dependent variable is the amount of pain e...

Traditional or Placebo Medical Treatment Choices

In five pages this paper considers the pros and cons of placebo usage over traditional medical treatment approaches. Five sources...

An Objective Look at Global Warming

in carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbon emissions that have accumulated in the atmosphere over time and ...

The Gospel Of Thomas - The Controversy

make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter...

Inclusion Of Special Education Students

meta-analyses report a "small to moderate beneficial effect of inclusion education on the academic and social outcome of special n...

Technology In Middle And High Schools

Panel members overwhelmingly believed it was very important to have technology right in the classroom (Clark, 2006). The research...

Social Issues in Education

and in the end, they will be accepted to prestigious universities that are much less accessible to the poor or middle class. This ...

Prohibition: Pros and Cons

the cities themselves. Evangelist Billy Sunday preached a sermon about the evils of alcohol in 1920. Among other things, he said...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...

Teachers' Roles in Character Education: Examining the Controversy

ongoing debate about how much and how far the educational system should influence children. Is it appropriate for that system and ...

The Ethical Controversy of Gene Mapping

much greater understanding of which chromosomes control which aspects of the human organism. This understanding is widely regarded...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...