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- 2861: Biofeedback
- ... length of treatment using biofeedback is six sessions, meeting one time per week for approximately 45 minutes. During a session of biofeedback, the client is hooked up to sensors that feedback to a specially designed computer program. The sensors feedback information about the clients internal states. The biofeedback techni cian and the client can monitor several biological functions at any one time. One sensor placed on the client is the pneumograph ...
- 2862: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... own lives, subject to strict guidelines. His patient also suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. She was in bad shape, struggling to hold her head up, could not talk, and had to communicate using a computer keyboard. She was deteriorating quickly. "She was very smart," he said, a note of sadness entering his voice. Kevorkian built a machine called the "mercitron," a jumble of tubes and bottles that would allow patients ...
- 2863: Teenage Suicide
- ... which painted a dire picture of the state of adolescent health. The analysis of the report presented youth problems, including social and emotional problems, school performance, drug use, drinking and driving, violence in school, pregnancy, crime, etc. as common reasons for and characteristics of a teen's self-destructive nature, which eventually leads him or her to suicide. In Canada, researches were made to figure out the reasons for teenage suicide ...
- 2864: Suicide in Las Vega
- ... kept asking, why Las Vegas? At that same pistol range, a man from Japan shot himself in his shooting stall. It's strange." I hear other stories. Of a wealthy man from Malibu, in the computer business, who committed suicide with sleeping pills and a plastic bag, in a luxury suite at the Mirage. His body was found next to the room's baby grand piano. He had bad relations with ...
- 2865: Assisted Suicide
- ... themselves of unbearable pain? This topic has been one of the great controversies over the last several years. Not too long ago if someone was found assisting in suicide, it was seen as a felony crime. But recently there have been court cases taken up in two federal appellate courts that ruled terminally ill patients have the right to seek doctor assisted suicide (Carter 1). These cases took place in New ...
- 2866: Euthanasia: The Right to Die
- ... own lives, subject to strict guidelines. His patient also suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. She was in bad shape, struggling to hold her head up, could not talk, and had to communicate using a computer keyboard. She was deteriorating quickly. "She was very smart," he said, a note of sadness entering his voice. Kevorkian built a machine called the "mercitron," a jumble of tubes and bottles that would allow patients ...
- 2867: Death Can Come Too Late: Active and Passive Euthanasia
- ... consent, is a fundamental moral difference. No one thinks that making killing in self-defense an exception to criminal homicide starts society on a slippery slope which logically must end in the abolition of the crime of murder; one simply does not follow from the other. And so it is that endorsing active euthanasia will not inevitably lead us to become a society of murderers. One way to protect against abuses ...
- 2868: Euthanasia
- ... suicide. Another law euthanasia breaks is the divine law. The Declaration on Euthanasia says "it is a question of the violation of the divine law, an offense against the dignity of the human person, a crime against life, and an attack on humanity" (Declaration). The divine law is considered by many the most important law. These laws needed to be followed very carefully. Euthanasia is an easy way out of the ...
- 2869: Depression
- ... not eating and not drinking. He had talked about how everything was his fault and had at times been pleading with an unseen person to forgive him. He felt that he had committed some unpardonable crime and that he should now be punished. Armed with this information the psychiatrist talked to Mr. Benson again. This time Mr. Benson replied, even if only briefly. He said that God was telling him that ...
- 2870: Psychology
- ... on individual existence, focusing on the role of free choice and our ability to make rational decisions on how we live. During the 1950s and 1960s, many psychologists began to look to the work of computer scientists in trying to understand the more complex behaviour which, they felt, learning theory or conditioning had oversimplified. This behaviour was referred to by early psychologists as 'mind' or mental processes, which has become cognition ...
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