Essays on Health Page 45

tions have been cut to a bare minimum, as far as addressing them goes. Gender discrimination, racism, and discrimination towards the disabled and less fortunate have been acknowledged, dealt with, and handled. Our children are taught to take care of the elderly, help the poor, and to stare at people with disabilities. The mentally handicapped,…

An unhealthy lifestyle, dietary choices, or an unbalanced nutritional intake are very dangerous. There is many health risk such as becoming obese or even problems with your heart. Most people don’t think of these little things until it’s too late to take control. There is ways to prevent these buy eating healthy and eating the…

He estimates that the addict population in Vancouver is around 3,000 to 5,000 individuals. Mat uses scientific search to identify the biological essence of the “high”, which is a condition under the influence of drugs. He explains how the drugs interact with the brains chemistry to give the user pleasure. In particular, he confirms opiates…

Defining Disability and Societies Stereotypes Society is always searching for a way to define or generalize what constitutes being disabled. Some would say disability is nothing out of the normal and that one’s who are disabled are still on a level playing field with abled persons. In contrast though, some argue that being disabled is…

Many people believed that the bone is static and inert, but this idea is incorrect, the organic andmineral components of the bone matrix are continually being recycled and renewed through aprocess called remodeling. This process goes under way throughout life, as part of normal bonemaintenance. Bone remodeling plays a key factor between the activities of…

He is trying to get across to his audience that mercy killing isn’t a good thing. It is murder. He says ‘You cannot have a murder every time someone feels sorry for a loved one in pain”. Killings would increase with the excuse of “l couldn’t watch him/her suffer any longer”. Yes, Watchman’s story is…

The Lassa virus is a vulgar virus with a high mortality rate and an expensive cure. Lassa was strange to me because I have never heard of the virus before. As I was reading in my research, I began to realize the risk the virus has on people. Lassa was first discovered, in humans, in…

Introduction Over 2500 years ago, the ancient Greek medicine has laid the foundation of modern medical ethics that bound the responsibilities of a doctor to a patient. Since the formulation of the Hippocratic Oath, it has lived through time as it is still recited by medical students as their pledge to pursue medicine as a…

There were many reasons for why Luther was summoned to the diet of worms, one of which was production the 95 theses by Martin Luther. Luther only sent his 95 Theses to a small number of bishops and a few of his close companions; he was not aiming for a response or retaliation form anybody….

I was a news carrier from 1982-1983. This was my first job as a young teenager. My brother and I would troop through both good and bad weather to deliver newspapers all over my neighborhood in a suburb of NY. We delivered about 50 papers a day during the week and 75 on Saturday. I…