Essays on Baldness

Analysis of the Book "The Medicalization of Society" By Peter Conrad

The Main Author's Arguments Peter Conrad, the author of the book "The Medicalization of Society," conducts a study of the most common problems of the modern society, which essence and nature have changed and obtained a medical character over the past 10-20 years. In other words, the author examines the social problems that have become the diagnoses at the beginning of the 21st century, though they were not related to medicine even a decade ago. At the very beginning of the book, Conrad emphasizes the investigated phenomenon, claiming that his analysis is connected only with the social connotations of ...

Hair transplant is one of the latest services in the health care sector. However, this procedure has been used in the United States since the 1950s. It involves taking a narrow strip from the back of the head where there is hair and placing it where there is totally no hair or where the hair has thinned out. The reason why it’s a modern service is because of the advancements in technology, making the process of hair transplantation and the aftermath appear as naturally.

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In addition to this, there are those people that have the hereditary gene for baldness. They ...

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The use of sport enhancing drugs among college students is not a new matter; however, the number of the students using the drugs is alarming and troubling. This paper discusses the increase in usage of sport enhancing drugs among college students. The use of drugs to help in enhancing sports performance is dangerous, and many college students understand the risks and potential of chronic diseases that may occur as a result of the drugs (Gardner, 2012). Many college students are ready to use sport enhancing drugs to help them to achieve the goal in fitness in sports. Additionally, it is hard ...

Anabolic steroids are derivatives of testosterone. Testosterone occurs naturally in the male testes. Like other steroid hormones, testosterone receptors occur on the nucleus membrane and in effect promote protein synthesis. It induces male secondary sexual characteristics and reproductive organ development. Furthermore, it has virilizing effects on females. Anabolic steroids are chemically similar to testosterone and, therefore, produce their effects on cells via the same receptors. They affect the muscles, liver, skin, reproductive organs, blood vessels, hair and bone. Anabolic steroids have been useful in the treatment of chronic aplastic anemia, osteoporosis, muscle wasting conditions, hypogonadism, androgen replacement therapy ...

Hair Relaxer, Madame C.J. Walker

Hair relaxer has turned out to be a revolutionary invention. According to College of Agricultural Sciences report (2003), the entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, born in 1867 and initially named as Sarah Breedlove was a worker in cotton fields in Louisiana. She got married at the age of 14 but soon she started to work as maid after her husband’s sudden death in the year 1887. In 1906 she married Charles Joseph and then changed her name from Sarah to Madame C.J. Walker. When she was in her early 20s she started experiencing baldness this was because of using improper hair ...

Article Review: Baldness Treatments May Mimic Animals' Winter Coats

Article Review: Baldness Treatments May mimic Animals Winter Coats Just imagine scientists have devoted so much research towards baldness in both men and women to make the startling discovery that treatment dermatologists’ use in their attempt to regenerate the function of hair follicles found within the skin, can be adapted towards understanding animal winter coating during the change of seasons (MyHealthDailyNews, 2011) Precisely, in making the connection with animals, Dr Cheng-Ming Chuong, University of Southern California, advanced the assumption that hair growth in animals is stimulated by hormones ...