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Family Response to Chronic Illness

the client, the illness, the epidemiology and perform a literature review. Since the paper deals with how families cope with chron...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Midlife Crisis Triggers

The ones who hang on to their commitments are still battered by a hurricane of fears, self doubts, and frustrations" (Conway, no d...

Marriage Satisfaction and the Effects of Chronic Illness

In ten pages this paper presents a scholarly literature review on how marital contentment is affected by chronic illness. Ten sou...

Literature Review on the Effects of Illness on Marital Happiness

In ten pages this essay presents a review of literature discussing how satisfaction in marriage is affected by chronic illness. T...

Lindlahr's Natural Therapeutics Compared to Five Articles

The natural approach to treating illness and maintaining health has become popular in recent years. Philosophy of Natural Therapeu...

Chlamydia Treatment and Prevention and the Role of Public Health Nurses

In five pages this illness is examined in terms of the role played by the public health nurse regarding issues of treatment and pr...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

Aspects of "Romeo and Juliet"

describing Tybalt, Mercutio "invoked the plague as a figure of speech, saying ... The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting phanta...

Illness

During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of fa...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Effects of Second Hand Smoke

experts are saying without relying on either side in this debate. To define the terms, its simplest to use Google. Typing in this...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Children with Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses

who are directly involved live and deal with life. This is something that cannot be accurately assessed through numbers, or specif...

Chronic Illness in Children and How Parents Cope

Infotrac, and Google. Sources from general databases will be used only if they originate from a reputable or professional organiza...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Illness in Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

from the plethora of emotionally-charged meanings that unnecessarily increase the suffering of those stricken with this disease. E...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Overview of Health Psychology

in health psychology has focused on three core questions: 1.) who gets sick and why do they get sick; 2.) of those who get sick, w...

'Proper' Alternative of Euthanasia

what is tantamount to a death sentence, because of the "uncertain definition of suicide in the context of a terminal illness" (Mar...

An Overview of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

etiology of the disease is not well understood, but substantive research suggests that individuals who suffer from ALS have mutati...

Issues of Colorblindness

college class in which the students were supposed to do a study of color as used in supermarket packaging; when the assignment was...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Dying and the 'Execution' of Death

concerning their death. In the case of individuals diagnosed with cancer who have gone through all the treatments possible and kno...

Case Studies in the Analysis and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders With the Help of Rebecca Shannonhouse's 'Out of Her Mind,' Margery Kempe, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Margery acknowledged she was haunted by images of the Devil in her mind, and that whenever she became ill or anxious, as she was f...

Senior Citizens with Chronic Illnesses and Social Deprivation

involved, the elderly can be put aside. Whether living at home or in a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the lives of the elderly w...

Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the illness in terms of its forms, causes, various treatments, and how women are pa...