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- 2351: Bulimia nervosa
- ... lives. They also had a slimmer ideal body image, and they dieted and exercised more. The risk factors for narrowly and broadly defined bulimia were similar (Kendler, 1991). Women with broadly defined bulimia had high rates of phobias, alcoholism, anxiety disorders, anorexia nervosa, and panic attacks. Their lifetime rate of major depression was also high (50 percent), but bulimia had no special association with that common disorder. All other things being ...
- 2352: Klinefelter Syndrome
- ... time of puberty. Many boys and their families are unaware of this disease and have no clue that their son has it until the symptoms at that time begin to appear. It was also of interest to me that the symptoms vary greatly. Although, Klinefelter Syndrome is pretty common, occurring in 1 in 500 to 1,000 male births, many men who have the sex chromosome arrangement of XXY are not ...
- 2353: Attitudes Toward Abortion
- ... Singer, Eleanor. 1981. "Reference Groups and Social Evaluations." in Social Psychology: sociological perspectives, edited by Morris Rosenburg and Ralph Turner. New York: American Sociological Association. Skerry, P. 1978. "The class conflict over abortion." The Public Interest. Vol 52: 69-84. Stinchcombe, A.L., R. Adams, C.A. Heimer, K.L. Schepple, T.W. Smith, and D.G. Taylor. 1980. Crime and Punishment-Changing Attitudes in America. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. White ...
- 2354: Euthanasia
- ... has no right to legislate. A case in point, in 1990 U.S. Supreme Court case Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health recognized that the right to refuse unwanted medical care is a liberty interest, and therefore is constitutionally protected. Just as, Judge Lynn Compton stated from the case Bouvia v. Superior Court, If there is a time when we ought to be able to get the government off our ...
- 2355: Steroids and The Big Picture
- ... disease. Steroids effect the cholesterol levels. Over a period of time the cholesterol builds up and clogs the arteries. Impotence occurs when a user goes on and off steroids. When steroids are first used, sexual interest increases because of the heightened frequency and duration of the erections. But eventually the opposite happens and no erections can be produced. Finally, jaundice is a serious liver disease, which is found by an enlarged ...
- 2356: Euthanasia: When Life Is To Be Feared More Than Death
- ... enhance the general welfare of human beings and, once legal safeguards are established that such actions will encourage human beings to act courageously, out of kindness and justice. We believe that society has no genuine interest or need to preserve the terminally ill against their will and that the right to beneficent euthanasia, with proper procedural safeguards, can be protected against abuse.
- 2357: The Black Plague
- ... deceased. When plague repeatedly returned to areas, families had no chance of reproduction. Even with better shelter and better food on the table, the family tree had no chance of maturing.2 Birth and death rates were hideously altered. Labor, taxes and industrial shrinkage soon saw the effects of plague. England's cloth trade suffered, yet never diminished. Industrial shrinkage was a great cause in the fall of the economy. With ...
- 2358: Learning CPR
- ... a requirement for graduation in all New York City high schools. The state of Washington has had mandatory CPR for its high school graduates for several years. They also have one of the highest survival rates for pre-hospital cardiac arrest patients. Many are apprehensive about getting involved in a situation that requires CPR out of fear of contracting a communicable disease. The fact is, the majority of instances in which ...
- 2359: Cigarettes
- ... use is ended. While many of the physical effects of heavy continuous use are essentially the same as those of short-term use, the heavy user may also suffer from mood swings, paranoia, loss of interest in sex, weight loss, and insomnia. Chronic cocaine snorting often causes stuffiness, runny nose, eczema around the nostrils, and a perforated nasal septum. Users who inject the drug risk not only verdosing but also infections ...
- 2360: Schizophrenia
- ... and extreme social impairment. Catatonic schizophrenics often suffer from rigidity, stupor, and often mutism. The final form of schizophrenia, simple schizophrenia, lacks developed hallucinations or delusion. It is however accompanied by an overwhelming loss of interest and initiative. The sufferer of simple schizophrenia will also usually suffer from withdrawal and will blunt their emotions (Torrey, 1983). The part of the brain thought to be affected by schizophrenia is the limbic system ...
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