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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...

Disease of Schizophrenia

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

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...

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, ...

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...

Dying, Death, and Bereavement Essays

In ten pages brief essays considering dying, death, and bereavement are presented in a consideration of terminal illness and child...

How Grief Therapy Can Help When a Loved One has a Terminal Illness

Grief and grief therapy are defined and explored and various stages are explained. There is emphasis on theory and which types of ...

'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...

Overview of Homeopathy

In six pages homeopathy is defined in a historical consideration that includes an analysis of illness treatment effectiveness. Ni...

Workplace Illness and Injuries Cost

In three pages this paper considers Australian businesses in a discussion of the various factors that affect workplace illness and...

Hereditary Illness Disclosure and the Questions It Raises

In nineteen pages the disclosure of a hereditary medical condition or illness and the bioethical and legal questions this raises a...

Common Health Problems and Healing Through Nutrition

In fifteen pages Dr. Wright's Book of Nutritional Therapy is discussed in terms of its premise, case studies, and the data it pres...

Psychology Questions on Mental Disorders and Medication Use

practitioners with information to determine whether a patients symptoms can be explained organically as a result of an actual heal...

Uncertainty in Illness Theory/Merle H. Mishel

Intervention using Mishels theory facilitates the process of patients accepting the inevitability of uncertainty as a factor in th...

The Bio-Psychological Approach to Health

obvious examples of the bio-psychological approachs usefulness is in the context of chronic illness. Take, for instance, a patient...

Heat-Related Illness

system impairment and cardiovascular failure" are all significant to the pathology of heat stroke (Lim and Mackinnon, 2006, p. 39)...

The Impact of Schizophrenia

the family are high, exacerbated by the death of Davids father. Feelings Gibbs reflective cycle will usually focus in the feelin...

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

Illness and the Relationships Between Body, Mind, and Language

persecution of the "monster." Of course, part of the trouble with any film like this is the knowledge we have as audience members...

From Benign to Deadly, Cryptococcus Neoformans

no proof of infection close to pigeon colonies (Pickles, 2005). In Australia and other southern hemisphere sub tropical regions ...

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...

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...

Tuberculosis, Head Lice, and School Disease

shown to be one of the sources where such harmful bacteria occur. Stemming directly from livestock populations, Mycobacterium par...

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, ...