Twins Case Studies Samples For Students

Analysis of some Stories in “The Best of Lady Churchill Rosebud’s Wristlet”

- What familiar restaurant forms the basis for the setting of this story? What details make this clear to you?
Egghead’s restaurant forms the basis for the setting of this story. This is so because the restaurant bears the décor of the Wizard of Oz which features prominently in the story ‘Heartland” by Karen Joy Fowler.
- What popular film is referenced by the final images of the story? How do these allusions function to establish the story as something other than realism?
The popular film referenced Wizard of Oz. The allusions in the ...

Medical technology has increased rapidly in the past few decades and it is now a challenge for the human beings to understand and evaluate it realistically. Medicalization is to understand and treat a medical problem or a disorder, and it follows a theory that some miracles happen because of the medicine. Elizabeth Grosz in her article “Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit” refers Siamese twins as freaks who are sufferers of social ostracism. Medicalization is clearly depicted in the article with an example of Siamese twins, who were examined by various doctors to separate them, and finally they decided not to separate them ...

Vanishing Twin Syndrome

Vanishing Twin Syndrome
In 1945, Walter Stoeckel proposed that the general population of conceptions were higher for multiple fetuses that supposed, suggesting that a twin or multiple fetuses may die in utero and subsequently be reabsorbed without clinical evidence by the surviving fetus/es, mother, or placenta (Stoeckel, 1945, cited in Levi, 1976). Named the “vanishing twin syndrome”, the cause is generally not known. If abnormalities are determined, they appear related to early development and are chromosomal; improper implantation of the cord may also play a role.
This paper presents a brief overview of the etiology, demographics, consequences, and tests ...

The word borderline was a common term in the 19th century used to delineate a condition that was bordering two distinct types of psychiatric conditions that were by the time broadly categorized into major groups; neurosis and psychosis (Chapman and Gratz 9). As Chapman and Gratz assert, this delineation was probably due to the fact that a limited number of patients had been observed to warrant a precise description of the disease. Findings from the researches point to the fact the Borderline Disorder could be described far much differently. Chapman and Gratz uphold that Borderline Disorder, conventionally known as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), ...

The first complication in many pregnancies is the fear of premature delivery. Such a realization increases the risk of health problems to the unborn babies. Studies have shown that more than half of all twin pregnancies do not stay up to the full term which increases the risk of miscarriage to the mother. The second complication that Teresa is likely to face is preeclampsia. This condition has been found to affect between 10 to 15 percent of all women carrying twins (Thomopoulos et al., 2013). Preeclampsia is characterized by traces of protein in the urine, high blood pressure to ...

Engaging Clients and other Systems in GSW Practice
Agency Setting

North Suffolk Mental Health Association provides mental health services to underserved communities in East Boston, Chelsea, Withrop, and Revere, Massachusetts. Among the primary mission objectives of the Agency is to provide people with institutional care, support community-based services in addition to helping people to achieve independence and fullness of life through the provision of a wide variety of community-based, person-centered treatment. North Suffolk Mental Health Association was founded in 1959 and has expanded into one of the leading and largest providers of mental health services in the State (North ...