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Essays 151 - 180
value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...
a concept created by Andrew Weil, MD (2004). He claims that it refers to the best of both worlds and an integration of alternativ...
a natural and interactive manner, while at the same time working toward prevention. While the Medical Association has typically h...
When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...
of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...
who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...
same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...
the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...
invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...
staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...
(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...
Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...
that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...
in fact no particular system that is called holism (1999). Rather, holistic medicine is really alternative. At the same time, ther...
reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...
have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...
were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...
America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...
approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...
day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...
an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...
While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...
In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...
In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...
Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...
concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...
This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...
in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...
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...
heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...