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Alternative Medical Approaches

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

involves the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. In more advanced technology radioactive materials are int...

Nuclear Medicine: Past, Present, and Future

the use of radioactive isotopes to diagnose and treat disease. Various types of cancer, for example, are being treated quite succ...

Love Medicine Chapter Summaries

(1934), pages 40-56. The story shifts to when Grandma is just 14. Her maiden name was Marie Lazarre. She is a headstrong girl, wit...

Complimentary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine (CAM)

record in terms of affecting improved health and welfare, Complimentary Alternative Medicine seeks an integration of mainstream me...

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...

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...

Psychology and Alternative Medicines

with step aerobics or jogging, yet the benefits to the body are comparable. This makes it ideal for those who either do not prefer...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Ancient Rome and Its Medical Practices

city in that time frame is in order. Civilization based in Rome, lasted for some 800 years.4 The earliest period of Rome is merg...

Summarizing and Reviewing Four Spirtuality Articles and Books

writers in this genre do the same thing, Andrews does seem to provide an extra sense of authenticity as dialogue is included to de...

Discussion of Fiber Optics

the optical signal back into a replica of the original electrical signal" (Anonymous Introduction to Fiber Optics, 2002; fiberguid...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

Chiropractic and CAM

through the efforts of their own belief systems. However, some argue that without the additional use of conventional physical the...

THE QUESTION OF CULTURE: LIA LEE, THE HMONG AND WESTERN MEDICINE

on p. 262 of her book. "However, I have come to believe that her life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but b...

Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

Laws and Regulations for CAM

individuals in the treatment of a diversity of medical problems. Willow trees are the natural source of aspirin. Medicinal plant...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Evidence Based Practice and Chiropractic Practice

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

Hippocrates and Influence of Greek Medicine

As Hippocrates father, Heraclides, was a physician, it is likely that he was his sons first instructor in medicine (Jankowski, 201...

The Health Care Industry and the Topic of Waste

at wasteful spending as well as waste in terms of paperwork that clogs the health care system and increases costs across the board...

Issues in Chinese Medicine and Medicinal Nutrition

and Ping, 2011). As with TCM practices, such as acupuncture, CMM is gaining attention worldwide, and much of this attention focuse...

WOMEN’S HEALTH AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES

Furthermore, the researchers pointed out, pain, depression and insomnia among this sample were "strong predictors" of CAM usage (E...

Modern and Ancient Medicine

strategies to support improved health along with pharmacological interventions. The ancient Egyptians introduced some treatment...

Nuclear Medicine and Its Uses

the era of nuclear medicine. The development of nuclear medicine has taken off in recent decades, with broad reaching implication...