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Selective Abortions and Medical Ethics

be ethical, considering that there is still a high degree of false positives. Still, the argument is, at least theoretically, that...

Two Journal Articles on Colic

points out possible remedies, such as swaddling and dillwater, which the health care professional could suggest to the parent....

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

Skin Cancer Literature Review

when Coco Chanel made the look desirable. Since that time, legions of youth and adults have sought to possess the "perfect" tan, ...

Medical Legalization of Marijuana

not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...

Jewish Medical Experimentation by the Nazis

(1988, p.PG). They wanted to form a master race that would eventually rule the world (1988, p. PG). The Nazis, after rounding up J...

Wound Closure: Vacuum Assisted Closure Therapy (V.A.C.)

a foam dressing, which is placed in the cavity of the wound (Medica, 2000). The other end of the tube is attached to a canister th...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

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

Medical Profession's Cultural Clashes in Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

far the most common cause of illness is soul loss"(Fadiman 8). What is most interesting about this book is that Fadiman...

Consequentialist and Nonconsequentialist Ethical Perspectives on Organ Transplantation

that there are positive consequences in organ transplant. Organ transplant gives life to those previously destined to an early de...

Clincal Practice Guidelines and Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in Children

Such statistics demonstrate that it is important for healthcare professionals, especially those associated involved with the treat...

Pain Perception Assessment Research Problem Solving

population, newborn infants who can not verbally communicate their pain or allow the researcher any means of utilizing patient sel...

Medicine and Technology

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

Judge Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) Case

Radioactive Substances Act 1948, section 3 (1) (a), the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956, section 9 (1) (a); the Drugs (Prevention...

Legislation and Employee Benefits

While this paper doesnt address the hospitality industry specifically, much of legislation indicated crosses all types of jobs and...

Medical Practicing on Newly Dead Bodies and Ethics

that the morality of choice is based on the greater good. The saying, "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" arise...

Medicine and Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France by Lynn Payer

between the patient and physician (technology, caring and values) are always present but may differ in balance. In addition, the r...

Marriage Rights, Medical Benefits, and Gay Marriage

It is becoming more and more apparent that the bonds of love go just as deep as heterosexual bonds; in fact, homosexual couples ar...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Medical Consent and Dependents Over the Age of 18

have declined given their knowledge of the fact that the pain their daughter was experiencing was not that atypical and was obviou...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Medical Education Continuation

true in the medical profession; today it is critical. At the same time, everyone is more pressed for time than in the past....

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

Doing Good and Medical Ethics

Oath. This was traditionally taken by all graduating doctors, but many institutions do not insist on it toady. The original oath h...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

Deafness and Differing Perceptions

of the physical changes that can be made to repair or improve a deaf persons ability to perceive sound. For example, the developme...

Sociological Implications of Elmer-Dewitt Cloning Article

mainly, helping infertile couples have a batter chance of conception that had been experienced in the past. In other arena...