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What Adopted Children Should Know About Their Biological Parents

This paper argues the thesis that genetic and sociological information about birth parents should be available to the children the...

Ethical Inventories and Psychiatric Professionals

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at professional ethics in psychiatry. The value of ethical inventories is explored. Pap...

Body and Ownership

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at the controversy of genetic patents. Legal rulings on the property status of the human...

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: DANVILLE AIRLINES

The problem with genetic testing is that it only reveals a genetic predisposition for a particular disease. David Reigers father h...

The Ethical Controversy of Gene Mapping

much greater understanding of which chromosomes control which aspects of the human organism. This understanding is widely regarded...

Antisocial Behavior in Children

behaviors. MAOA is the structural gene for production of this enzyme. Four other chemicals, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Culturally Competent Care In Psychiatric Hospitals

Culturally competent care appropriate for a psychiatric hospital is considered a basic and primary component of nursing given the ...

Homosexuality: Choice Or Biological Predisposition?

beliefs" (Foner et al, 1991). The act of ridiculing gays and lesbians even back then has made it difficult for them in todays wor...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Implantation and Genetics

a whole host of other problems, they are also equipped with the option to choose genetic composition such as gender. "We currentl...

Genetic Diversity and Extinction

randomness of change, and then by the belief that evolution is shaped by changes in gene frequencies that are linked to concepts o...

Rice That is Genetically Engineered

the problems they (I assume "they" is a team of scientists) encountered patenting the rice, and in making the technology freely av...

Future Possibilities of Foods That Are Genetically Engineered

engineered food crop, the "Flavr Savr" tomato, had made it to the buying public (The Economist, 1997). Early proponents o...

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

Gonadal Dysgenesis

Synopsis Genetic abnormalities often have distinct...

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

An Overview of Huntington's Disease

2008, 436). There is no cure for Huntingtons. Genetics The gene for the disease is found on the fourth chromosome (Collins, 19...

Mass Extinction: Comparison of Flora and Fauna

may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

The Ethics of Genetic Testing

no matter what the results are, they would not terminate the pregnancy. Hence, this debate in part has to do with the consequences...

The Pros and Cons of Genetic Engineering

fictional, of course, yet it brings home some very interesting points regarding genetic engineering. First, agriculture has turne...

Developing a Genetic Vaccine for Malaria

pathogen"; that is, they have to be able to counter the disease if it mutates (Ivory and Chadee, 2004). As noted above, its been d...

How Research is Used by a Distribution Company

generalized research which took place many years ago. In more recent years there has been research that can be seen as specificall...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...

Three Research Methodologies for Inclusion in Education

In this instructional setting, there are a number of students who are designated as requiring Special Education services for disab...

Yangpin's Noodle a Case Study

with a 28 percent market share. The remaining market share of 15% is shared by a number of small establishments. The research also...

Urban Land Supply; Drives and Constraints in Beijing

growing cities and with a high level of state control in this communist country it may be expected that the urban development proc...

Public Health in Haiti; A Research Proposal

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...