Homosexuality And The Healthcare Profession
.... and morbid condition; an intense and unreasoning fear or dislike." From this, homophobia can be defined as, "a pattern of attitudes - a revulsion towards homosexuals and often the desire to inflict punishment, mental or physical, as retribution" (Weinberg 1972).
According to Collins (1993) an attitude is a, "way of thinking and behaving." Burns (1980), goes further and suggests that an attitude consists of three elements; what we believe about an object, how we feel about it, and what we tend to do about it. Taking this into account, a nurse who may believe and feel that homosexual acts are intrinsically wrong will communicate th .....
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Preventing Injuries
.... the activity. Like any automobile, a person also needs to warm up their body before being used. One of the best ways to do this is to just do a light jog and then stretch. This way the muscles are warmed up a little bit and the person is not stretching cold muscles which could cause an injury. Once they start to stretch, the person exercising should go through a routine to ensure that all the muscles are stretched and strong. One way to do this is to start from the top of the body and work down to the ankles. They should stretch out the neck, shoulders, arms, back, sides, quadriceps, calf muscles, and then the ankles. If .....
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Bronchial Asthma
.... triggers are associated with asthma, most commonly when airborne irritants such as pet dander, cigarette smoke, plant pollen and mold spores (and even fecal matter from dust mites and cockroaches), signal a hyperresponsiveness in the airway, in form of special mast cells. (Figure 2& 3) This is Inflammation, the first of three stages of an asthma attack. These mast cells secrete histamine, which swells the airway. This is called the inflammatory response. The inflammatory response signals goblet cells in the airway walls to secrete too much mucus, causing the wheezing and coughing. This is the second step of the attack, the C .....
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The Plague In 1347
.... small apple, others as an egg. Afterwards purple spots in most parts of the body; in some cases large and but few in number, in others smaller and more numerous both sorts the usual messengers of death. The cure of this plague, neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect; whether because the disease was in its own nature mortal or that the physicians could form no just idea of the cause.
While this was occurring, people began to reflect on their life, they're past, present and future expectation. When faced with death, people began too look back on their life, “life flashing before their eyes”. People begi .....
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Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"
.... I thought I would lose control of my bowels. I stood up and started pacing like an animal in a cage, looking out the window.”
Immediately other thoughts entered her mind, it can’t be happening. It must be some careless mistake made by irresponsible lab-staff. Disbelief in the reality and denial of what is happening give a poor woman hope, and the test is repeated twice, having the same devastating results. The deadly disease is already a fact, but still does not make sense, being both scary and unreal. The shame comes on surface: “I kept focusing on shame. There is so much shame attached to this illness.” And here’s why. Th .....
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Cystic Fibrosis
.... caused the ineffectiveness of the digestive track. The mucus is what trapped the infectious bacteria in the lungs.1946 scientists discovered that CF was a recessive trait caused by a mutation of a single gene. They also found out that about 5% of Americans are asymptotic carriers. Meaning they don’t show the disease’s symptoms.
In New York there was a heat wave one-year and the hospitals were packed with over heated CF infected people. And that’s because CF patients sweat a lot but the salt on there skin prevents the water from being evaporated of the skin. Sweat is used to keep people cool. Which was why those people .....
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DNA: An Invasion Of Privacy?
.... to protect U.S. citizens. At the same time they exist so the court systems time is not wasted on a case that has no evidence to go on.
There are all types of reasons DNA tests should be done. Whether they are ethical or not is hard to say. Should someone who is suspected of a rape have to give a sample? Should a person who is suspected of a murder have to give a sample? These are the questions people have asked before. “Literally dozens of courts have held that the taking of blood or urine samples is intrusive and a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. (348)” This is the answer the people get to these ques .....
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Stress
.... help. Some things, which can reduce stress, are: take care of your physical health, make time for yourself, rub your feet and hands, help someone else, take a walk, take a nap, listen to music, tell a joke, do yoga, drink lots of water, be nice to someone every day, unplug the phone, read a book, and learn
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RU-486 The New Abortion Pill: How Safe Is It?
.... than 100,000 women.
The creator of RU-486 is Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu. He made this for the French pharmaceutical company named Rossel-Uclaf. RU-486 is the first of a generation of birth control drugs called “antiprogestins” considered to be a breakthrough in birth control drugs.
RU-486 works by binding to progestorone receptors in the women’s uterus and blocking the action of progestorone. Without progestorone the lining of a woman’s uterus breaks down and sheds, so that bleeding will occur. The drug opens the cervix and leads to contraction that helps to dislodge and expel the embryo.
RU-486 is a synthetic steroid meth .....
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Cigarettes
.... customers, except if a new ingredient is added, in which case they should be notified. No one is saying get rid of the Surgeon General warnings, but enough is enough! If a person wants to smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day, then that is their choice; tobacco companies should not be held responsible. Let us examine the hype surrounding the supposed danger and addition of nicotine. The Food and Drug Administration tells us that nicotine (the addictive drug found in cigarettes) is just as addictive as cocaine and should be illegal. "Much of the rhetoric of the anti-smoking movement seeks to demonize tobacco smokers as "nicotine addic .....
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Shellfish Poisoning
.... Less wellcharacterized are the symptoms associated with DSP, NSP, and ASP. DSP is primarily observed as a generally mild gastrointestinal disorder, i.e., nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain accompanied by chills, headache, and fever. Both gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms characterize NSP, including tingling and numbness of lips, tongue, and throat, muscular aches, dizziness, reversal of the sensations of hot and cold, diarrhea, and vomiting. ASP is characterized by gastrointestinal disorders (vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain) and neurological problems (confusion, memory loss, disorientation, seizure, coma). .....
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Tourett’s Syndrome
.... repetitive movements of individual muscle groups (“Encyclopedia” 374). Tics are also seemingly random. In order to be diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome, a child must exhibit multiple motor tics and one or more vocal tics several times a day for a period of at least a year (Neifert 126). The swearing is often perceived to be most distressing or dramatic aspect of Tourette Syndrome and has received the special medical term of coprolalia (Faqs about TS 4). Echolalia, Echopraxia, and Palilalia are urges related to tics. Echolalia is the urge to repeat other’s words and Echopraxia is the urge to mimic other’s actions. Also, Palil .....
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