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Smoking
... from
more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who
smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young
adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in
1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs
that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use
aversive techniques in which participants smoke many cigarettes rapidly to the
point of becoming sick of them.
More than 30 million persons in the U.S. say that they would like to
quit smoking but cannot. One hypothesis to explain this problem is that the
smoker crave ...
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Culture From Cranium
... intellect.
There have been many cases of such things happening throughout
history. Some have met with success, and some not. For the purposes of this
essay I have chosen to examine one case, which, considering it's sharp
deviation from the cultural context from which it came, was surprisingly
successful. The Oneida Community, in Oneida, New York was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had ...
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AIDS/HIV
... feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected.
Even though they don't look or feel sick, they can still infect others.
When the symptoms do start to happen they can be like the ones of many
common sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It is
usually characterized by severe weight loss and fatigue. The AIDS disease
makes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid of
because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most
common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's
sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and
tumors ...
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Bipolar Disorder
... tiredness, thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts, memory loss.
Hospitalization may be required for treatment during bad phases. Sometimes it gets so bad that a person must be put in mental institute. There are medications for such as lithium and other anti-depressants and attention deficit disorder hyperactive (ADDH) medications. Sometime a person when depressed might try to treat it them self by using drugs and alcohol which just makes it worst and even makes them more depressed. Such as if someone is going though a bad phase then they try to treat it with cocaine. All that’s going to do is make it worst, when they fiend for and it don’t have any money or any ...
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Circadian Rhythms: Experiment
... as being either morning or night types of
people. Subjects for my experiment will be randomly chosen from these
questionnaires. I will select three night-time people and three morning-time
people. I will then give each of them a journal. In this journal each subject
will write in it the time that they become hungry, or the time that they became
tired. They will do this for three days. At the end of the three days they
will come back to my laboratory. They will then be put in an isolation booths.
In one of the booths there will be a clock that doesn't have the right time on
it. In another one there will be a window so that they can see where the sun is.
I ...
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Medical Miracles On The Horizon
... and urgent roles entering
into the new era. This is one of the reasons that I intend to pursue a career
in the medical field after I graduate from The University of Tennessee. Of all
occupations in the next millennium, medicine will be perhaps the most important
and influential in combating the problems of mankind and in solving them.
People in the field of medicine will continue, as they have in this
century, to address and participate in almost all concerns. For example,
methadone is currently being used as a therapeutic intervention for some drug
addictions. In addition, various medications are now being given in the
treatment of criminals, like anti-psych ...
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McDonaldization: Health In A Fastfood Society
... the bureaucratic
organization that it is. All the characteristics depicted by Ritzer are easily
seen when one examines health care. From a normal trip to the doctor for a
routine check-up or even a specific ailment to rush trip in the emergency room
predictability, control, efficiency, and quantification are obvious.
Quantification is easily seen when you first step into a hospital
waiting room and a huge sign tells you a number before you are even able to
speak to anyone. After waiting a while your number is called, you must give
your health card number to the receptionist before continuing. You are then
given a file number, which is your only identity for the ...
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Eczema
... or personal history of allergic asthma, rhinitis,
conjunctivitis, food allergies, icthyosis vulgaris, and keratosis pilaris.
Eczema has always seemed to be a genetic skin disease, but until recently the
researchers have been unable to identify a specific gene involved in the passing
on of eczema. Now, doctors believe they have found a gene that causes eczema,
but since it is not present in all cases of eczema, they believe that there is
more than one gene that can cause eczema. Also, a maternal pattern of
inheritance has been discovered. Doctors and researchers believe that this
maternal inheritance pattern is due to modification in the immune responses in
uter ...
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Schitzophrenia And Other Mental Disorders
... with this terrifying disorder. This show was very
inspirational for all people with disorders. The boy's name was Corky who
fought all aspects of the disorder. Them being from physical triumphs to just
everyday kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated gu ...
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Schitzophrenia, Childhood, Mental, Anxiety And Other Disorders
... with this terrifying disorder. This show was very
inspirational for all people with disorders. The boy's name was Corky who
fought all aspects of the disorder. Them being from physical triumphs to just
everyday kids harrassing him at school. The show was taken off the air in 1993
because of sponsers.
Records of types of disorders are unknown along with many of other
records of treatments to people inflicted with a disorder. This is mainly
because in the early 1900's people thought that people with disorders were just
stupid and they did not investigate further into the matter. The quanity of
people that have a disorder is unknown. There is an estimated gu ...
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