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Alternative Medical Approaches

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

Contemporary Nursing's History

as how the profession has been viewed for at least a century. It was an honorable and respected position for a woman and one that ...

Treatment to Sustain Life and Patient's Refusal

best way to appease both the law and the public; its dynamic decision about whether to include doctor-assisted suicide and volunta...

Ancient Greek Women and the Effects of Medicine, Law, and Architecture

of Greek culture to glean hints as to how a woman interacted in this male-dominated world....

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Review of Three Medical Articles

This paper provides a review of three articles on the topic of medicine. This nine page paper has three sources listed in the bib...

The Medicine Shoppe Analyzed

The website known as The Medicine Shoppe is examined in terms of its parent corporation, Cardinal Health, the industry, and its ph...

Benefits of Homeopathic Medicine

its primary treatment options. Because the diversity is so great between homeopathic and allopathic medicine there has been and w...

St. John's Wort, Pro and Con

The writer examines the opinions of St. John's Wort, a herb commonly used to treat depression, from the point of view of tradition...

Machine Medical Model and Religion

getting needed referrals, going through red tape, being told they need to submit forms for approval and things of that nature. The...

Global Civilization and Muslim Contributions

In eight pages this paper discusses how Muslim cultures have contributed to the world in a consideration of geography, medicine, s...

Overview of Cranial Osteopathy

the physiological versus psychosomatic basis for results, etc. In essence, Osteopathy is a method of physiological healing ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine Marketing

In nine pages Good Health Hong Kong is examined in a discussion of marketing traditional Chinese medicines with market expansions ...

Evidence Based Practice and Chiropractic Practice

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

Laws and Regulations for CAM

individuals in the treatment of a diversity of medical problems. Willow trees are the natural source of aspirin. Medicinal plant...

Considerations in Government Supported Stem Cell Research

heal without scarring (Muneoka 56; Pilcher 42). Unfortunately, embryonic stem cell research is an ethical quagmire. Stem cell ...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

Chiropractic and CAM

through the efforts of their own belief systems. However, some argue that without the additional use of conventional physical the...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

Managing Finances and Ethics

family must earn money and make financial decisions but poor decisions can lead families into bankruptcy and homelessness. Is home...

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...