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Humor Therapy

decreases blood pressure as well as reducing the level of stress hormones while increasing muscle flexion and boosting the immune ...

Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia.

various gods (Demand, 2000). The greatest contribution to the development of true civilization, however, occurred around 3100 BCE,...

Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM): Definition and Factors Influencing Acceptance

As positive as some CAMs are in promoting health, the general public has been somewhat reluctant to accept these...

Alternative Medical Approaches

use these techniques only in response to certain ailments, such as back or neck pain (Steiner 20). However, another difference is ...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Disease Treatment Through Alternative and Holistic Medicine Approaches

approaches that are specifically utilized to improve health, the percentage of Americans relying on CAM jumps to sixty-two percent...

Advantages of Socialized Medicine

in such a manner. There is no question that far too much time, money and effort is spent on government regulations and bureaucrac...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

The Role of the Physician: Differing Views in Accordance with Age, Gender, Ethnicity and OccupationVarious Perspectives on the Role of Medical Doctor

value the psychological and social factors which can equate with disease or infirmity. Nurses, although also trained primar...

Force and William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force'

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Exploring Complementary and Alternative Medicine

in fact no particular system that is called holism (1999). Rather, holistic medicine is really alternative. At the same time, ther...

Examination of CAM Therapies

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

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

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...

Description of Fiber Optics

In four pages fiber optics are examined in a discussion that considers the uses of fiber optic cables in such professions as telec...

Medicine and the Use of Fiber Optics

In six pages the applications of fiber optics in medicine are explored. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Biopharmaceuticals, Medicine, and the Effects of Deforestation

In five pages the negative impact of deforestation on medicine is examined in a discussion of the destruction of biological materi...

US and Socialized Medicine

This research paper consists of six pages and discusses how economic and health care problems that are plaguing the United States ...

Medical Technology and Computers

In seven pages medicine and its computer history are considered with such concepts as telemedicine, computer aided surgery, and 'v...

A Biography on Charles Drew

This biography takes a look at this black doctor who lived during the 1900s. What Drew would contribute to modern medicine is incl...

Modern Medicine and Reproductive Technology

In five pages this paper discusses modern medicine in a consideration of reproductive issues associated with surrogate motherhood,...

In Favor of Socialized Health Care in the United States

In fourteen pages this author considers the many Americans currently without any type of health car insurance in order to make the...