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4 Cultural Topics

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

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...

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...

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. ...

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 ...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

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...

Decision Making in Schools and Information Technology's Uses

it the potential that is valuable, but there is even a duty of school to take advantage of technology. Where schools are concerned...

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 ...

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...

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...

STDs Increasing

The introduction reports data about the incidence of Chlamydia and uses that as a catalyst to discuss health programs in schools; ...

UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR OF PHARMACARE IN CONNECTION WITH AD23

Answers questions pertaining to the business, marketing and advertising non-ethical behavior used by PharmaCARE in its distributio...

Need to Broaden the Scope of Nursing Practice

This research paper discusses the need to broaden the scope of practice for advanced practice nurses, which is recommendation of t...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Herbal Medicine and the World Wide Web

This paper reviews two popular web sites and comments on the information they include about the use of the rose in traditional med...

The Evolution of X Ray Technology

This paper considers the lengthy history of X Rays and how they have evolved in terms of their application in medicine. Includes ...

Noncompliant Patients Due to Culture

The United States has become more and more diverse over the last four decades and that diversity continues to expand. Different cu...

Overview of IT/Oakland Family Medicine

This research paper/essay describes the IT systems used by Oakland Family Medicine, which is associated the MaineGeneral Medical C...

The Future of Nursing, Overview of The IOM Report

This research paper offers an overview of the "Future of Nursing", which was developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF...

Literature Review on Allopathic and Holistic Medicine

In eight pages this paper examines holistic and allopathic medicine in a review of how coexistence and utilization are represented...

Benefits of Homeopathic Medicine

This paper examines the practice of homeopathic medicine. This five page paper has six sources listed in the bibliography....

Technology's Impact upon Operations and Production Management

In five pages this paper discusses operations and production management in an assessment of how each has been affected by technolo...

Broadcast and Print Media and New Technologies' Implications

Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know. Shapiro (1999) posits that the Inte...

Post Second World War and Technology's Impact

In five pages this paper considers how in the years since World War II technological advancements have profoundly changed employee...

"Medicine Man," Environmental Damage in

This paper pertains to the detrimental destruction of a rain forest environment as dramatized in the 1992 film "Medicine Man." Thr...

Reshaping Nursing Education

This research paper pertains to "The Future of Nursing," an initiative established by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) an...