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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. ...

Questioning Health Policy

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

4 Cultural Topics

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

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

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

Ancient Rome and Its Medical Practices

city in that time frame is in order. Civilization based in Rome, lasted for some 800 years.4 The earliest period of Rome is merg...

Summarizing and Reviewing Four Spirtuality Articles and Books

writers in this genre do the same thing, Andrews does seem to provide an extra sense of authenticity as dialogue is included to de...

An Analysis of the Text The Sexual Politics of Sickness

growing fears about it; and potential illness as a result. The standard birth takes place in a clinical hospital where the patient...

Economic Approach to Socialized Medicine and an Aging Population

may lead to those with the information making assumptions, leading to moral hazard, as well as those that do not have the same lev...

Hunter 'Patch' Adams

as an opposing force rather than one that works for all living beings. Based upon his functionalist theory, Durkheim would not be...

Psychology and Alternative Medicines

with step aerobics or jogging, yet the benefits to the body are comparable. This makes it ideal for those who either do not prefer...

Discussion of Fiber Optics

the optical signal back into a replica of the original electrical signal" (Anonymous Introduction to Fiber Optics, 2002; fiberguid...

Women Doctors

and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...

UK's Policy on Technology

as well as medical miracles. Technology affects everyone and many industries. In honing in on a few major ones, Britains policy ma...

Rehabilitation, Exercise, and Osteopathic Knowledge

the various parts of the body. It is important to understand and convey the information that in the osteopathic theory of medicine...

Incorporation of Allopathic and Holistic Methods

cohabitation. Taking the lead from traditional medicine, alternative options incorporate drug therapy with several other modaliti...

US Complementary and Alternative Medicine Status

regulated. Herbs, for example, are not subject to Federal Drug Administration regulation ("St. Johns" 6). That is because they are...

The Hamot Medical Center Case Analysis

study of this Hamot medical facility, and reviews such issues as its inception, organizational and health care innovations, the su...

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...

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...

STDs Increasing

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