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Examination of CAM Therapies

reduce discomfort following surgery (NCCAM, 2004). Use of CAM has been controversial in the medical community, especially...

Herbal Medicine and Environmental Pollution

the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

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...

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...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

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...

Ethics and Bio-Medicine

decease to reproduce after death" (p. 362). This is definitely the inferred wish - Mrs. D., in fact, was pretty emphatic about it....

Medicine and Technology

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

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

Contemporary Medicine and the Impact of 'Telemedicine'

as we see advances in the world of telemedicine. INTRODUCTION The literature review of telemedicine articles is based on inform...

Medicine and Morality in Haiti The Contest for Healing Power by Paul Brodwin

and Morality in Haiti is the culmination of Brodwins year-and-a-half anthropological research into the southern portion of the reg...

Medicine and Physics

by many" (Gould, 2003). By design, the equipment is seven feet tall by seven feet wide by ten feet long, considered by some to be...

Karl Landsteiner: Outstanding Contribution To Medicine

of immunohistochemistry as it is known today. The reason for choosing this Austrian immunologist and pathologist instrumental in ...

Hugo Chavez: Bad Medicine for Venezuela?

The first point that should be presented to support this thesis is that there is considerable evidence that Chavezs plans have don...

Medicine and the Effects of Rainforest Depletion

In six pages this paper discusses the protection of plants for medicinal purposes in an examination of the dangers posed by defore...

Review of Medicine and Culture by Lynn Payer and Kerr L. White

In three pages this text is reviewed as it compares medical system diversity in three European countries and the U.S. There are no...

Spiritual Home in the Novels Beloved, Love is Medicine and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In eight pags this paper examines the meaning of a spiritual home in these three works of fiction. There are no additional source...

Medicine and Computers

In fifteen pages this research paper considers the medical profession's applications of computers in terms of history and various ...

A One-Chapter Analysis of Louise Erdrich's Novel, Love Medicine

This paper analyzes the structure and thematic elements seen in the second chapter of Erdrich's novel. This five page paper has o...

Using Animals for Research in Medicine

In a paper consisting of five pages the writer argues that using animals for medical research purposes is necessary because doing ...

Lack of 'Health' Concern of Mainstream Medicine

In fifteen pages this report discusses how the U.S. system of health care is failing citizens due to poor care by medical practiti...

Traditional Medicine versus Alternative Health Care

inasmuch as drug therapy is the treatment of choice for traditional practitioners. Quoting Dr. Jeffrey Lowrey, Baptist Minor Medi...

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...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Native American Identity Struggles in Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

In seven pages these novels are compared in terms of how each features the Native American identity struggle with similarities and...

Western Medicine and Women's Health

In ten pages this paper examines women's health and the Western medical system from historical and feminist perspectives. Ten sou...

Overspecialization in Medicine

than 40% of current graduates from U.S. medical schools expected to enter generalist practice, the projected physician workforce w...

Gender, 19th Century Medicine and "The Yellow Wallpaper"

How patriarchy influenced the treatment of women in the 19th century is the focus of this analytical paper based on Charlotte Perk...

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich and June Kashpaw's Powerful Influence

ones who live in the woods" (Erdrich 87). June marries Maries son Gordie - one of her childhood tormentors - and enters, not surp...

Complementary Medicine and Psychology

impact (Kinrys, Coleman and Rothstein, 2009). Passionflower is another plant that has been used since ancient time because of its...