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'Cultural Aspects of Women's Health Care' Article

respond to the American way of medicine. It seems only logical that a health care professional would consider at least some of the...

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...

Amniocentesis and Amniotic Fluid

In five pages this paper discusses the aspects and medical implications of amniotic fluid and amniocentesis during pregnancy in te...

19th Century Russia, Medicine, and Health

which is before the communists would seize control, how did Russian peasants fare? It should be noted that the years mentioned de...

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...

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton and the Literary Device of Illness

In five pages and an outline consisting of one page this paper discusses how gender and class roles as well as characterization in...

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...

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...

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 ...

Ethnicity and Health

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

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Overview of Gestalt Therapy

human beings perceive of things far beyond their physical limitations. The law of pragnanz, which asserts that man is "innately d...

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)....

The ‘Philosophy’ of Massage Therapy

long and interesting historical evolution, and its origins are largely responsible for the reluctance of allopathic medical profes...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Health and Illness Interpretations

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

Medical Law in California California Compassionate Care Act

the belief that only God has the right to end a life. Assisting a patient to die is usurping the position that rightly belongs to...