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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...

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 ...

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...

Ethnicity and Health

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

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...

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, ...

Disease of Schizophrenia

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

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...

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...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

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...

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...

'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...

"Tuesdays with Morrie"

his death sentence. Albom describes the way in which ALS steals its victims bodies, little by little. The nerves are impaired, u...

Environmental Regulation in America since the 1970s

2007). Also, the Superfund aligned with EPA is something that has attempted to provide support for various efforts to improve the...

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...

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...

Stop the Fat Epidemic

Being overweight, obese, or morbidly obese has become one of the major causes of illness across the globe. Childhood obesity is no...

Two Nursing Studies

their experiences following the refresher course during the first six months of employment as a refreshed nurse. Scott, Votova ...

Suicidal Ideation Not Necessarily Associated With Bipolar Disorder

benefit from the combined benefits of pharmacotherapy and psychosocial therapy. Inherently associated with suicidal tendencies, b...

Codes of Ethics Guide Therapists

Those who work in physical and mental health professions are bound by laws, regulations, and their field's Code of Ethics that gui...

Cognitive Restructuring

meet, however, people in the throes of emotional instability are often incapable of offsetting the destructive thoughts that wande...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper

A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fasci...