Essays on Modern Medicine

Introduction

In the 1996 movie entitled, The Craft, it portrays four troubled high school women who holds the power to control their own realities and the people around them by the practice of black magic. Each woman is having some negative issue within their own life, including low self-esteem, trouble fitting in with other classmates, lack of family dynamics and poor relationships. These problems temporarily go away when the teenagers all come together to call the four corners of East, West, South and North to their deity that will grant them unlimited power and control. Although the magic ritual worked ...

Euthanasia: For

Euthanasia has been a heated debate topic for several years. It appears that just recently, people have begun warming up to the idea of ending one’s life before the physical, psychological, and emotional toll of illness and age become too much for one to bear. We should be inclined to agree with these individual for several reasons. We do not get to decide when and if we are born, but perhaps we should have a say in when we die. Moreover, we are the only ones who can decide when life has become unbearable, and should be granted ...

ABSTRACT

Ethical issues are something that is a reality in modern medicine. This is certainly true when it comes to religious, spiritual and philosophical belief systems. Sometimes these strongly held beliefs are on the part of patients, but there are times when beliefs are held by healthcare workers. There are ethical codes in place that protect a patient’s right to refuse treatments, like blood transfusions, if they ethically or morally feel that are not what they wish to do. There are also options available for healthcare workers who feel that they cannot ethically be involved in certain treatments or ...

Abstract

Christianity and Islam are both monotheistic religions with the same fundamental background, which are closely aligned as it relates to the presentation of the old testament, however, differing on points of the significance of Jesus and the path to salvation. It is important to understand how both of these religions view the interplay of faith, and modern medicine as it relates to health, wellness and healing. In essence, as both invest faith in an omnipotent and omnipresent God, who promises followers eternal life, both believe that prayer, faith, and the intervention of the divine are integrally involved in healing. ...

The battle of culture and beliefs versus nursing profession

The nursing professional is consistently challenged with science and cultural beliefs of patients. A patients set of religious and personal beliefs could interfere with the nurses’ empirical and scientific knowledge (Ammouri, et al. 2015). In a culturally diverse globe, many beliefs act as barriers in performing necessary medical interventions. Nurses may play a crucial but minimal role in such cases of cultural and religious belief. In emergency care and life-threatening situations, some religions do not permit for medical procedures which puts the attending nurse in a dilemma between cultural beliefs and ethical conduct. However, in most cases, nurses are ...

Abstract

Nurses have been responsible for providing primary health care in the modern health care system as well as all through history. Advance practice registered nurses can be certified in different roles. One of the important roles is that of a Geronotological Nursing Practitioner (GNP). Geriatric nurses have become a significant part of modern medicine as they are the primary care givers to elderly patients and it is recognized as a very critical advance practice nursing specialty. GNP’s are entrusted to manage a very critical part of patient care, and they have to be vigilant at all times to ...

The science of homoeopathy has proved to be a boon for the 21st century people. The extremely fast paced life of this century has subjected the people to numerous disease conditions which were non -existent or were very rare in the past. The basic principle of homoeopathy believes in maintaining the vital force in its healthy form. The use of modern medicines has made life much complicated and has affected the vital force of the people in a negative manner. In aphorism 41, Organon of Medicine 6th Edition, our Master Samuel Hahnemann brings about the fact how modern medicines ...

Introduction

Antibiotics are a class of drugs that are mostly used to treat infections caused by bacteria. Uncountable bacteria live in various parts the human body. These include the gut, skin, mouth and throats (Gelband et. al, 2015). Some of these bacteria are harmless. However, there are others that are pathogenic (disease causing) and can cause infections. These infections are known as bacterial infections and doctors prescribe antibiotics as mode of treatment. Antibiotics were introduced in 1940 and since then they have been significant to modern medicine. The core role of antibiotics was to treat infections caused by bacteria. However, ...

There are so many diseases, conditions and disorders that can negatively affect human beings that are inconvenient, problematic and, some can be fatal. That said finding treatments and cures for these ailments is paramount, but not everyone is comfortable with the many different chemicals and drugs that are supported by physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Some people have, do and will continue seek out different treatments, outside the traditional medical approaches. These different approaches are called “alternative medicine.” Alternative medicine can include choosing medicinal marijuana instead of prescription pain killer, faith healing and acupuncture. However, many argue that if ...

Eugenics entails how sexual reproduction can be restructured. Positive eugenics entails the restructuring of sexual reproduction to enhance sexual reproduction of persons with preferred traits. Alteration of sexual reproduction to reduce the sexual reproduction of persons with negative traits is negative eugenics. Deductively, the case in case study one is a case of negative eugenics because it entails the modification of sexual reproduction to promote the sexual reproduction of a child who is free from Huntington’s Disease, which is an undesirable trait. It would be acceptable for the married couple in case study one to select the sex ...

English 1B

The field of medicine will continue to move forward (Worboys 117), and this has been indicated by the products produced by laboratory sciences, as well as the development of significant medical products like penicillin, which was made possible through the discovery of ‘macromolecularization’ (Lowy 117). Like the industrialization since the post-World War II era, the field of medicine will continue to move forward (Worboys 117), as was indicated by history, specifically the industrialization period, which shows “development of hospital and laboratory medicine, public health, and the rise of the asylum took place” (Worboys 109). However, when discussing the genomics ...

Introduction

The world we live in today has not always been what it is but has been built to what it is today. While little is known of the Western world, specifically the Americas before explorers such as Christopher Columbus discovered it, there exists rich literature of ancient civilizations that have shaped all spheres of modern life. The most recognized civilizations include the Egyptian civilization, the Roman Empire, and the Greek civilization. The fall of one civilization led to the rise of another civilization and so forth. The earliest recorded civilization, however, is the Egyptian civilization and scholars have credited ...

Abortion (from the Latin abortus - miscarriage) - is an artificial pregnancy interruption. In general, it is a removal of the fetus from the uterus carried out by under the age of 22 weeks from conception of fetus. The operation is usually carried out in an instrumental or medical way. Every year about 46 million abortions are held in the world. This operation is permitted in 54 countries, which account for 61% of the world's population (Brown, 2014). The question of banning or permitting abortion is being discussed in the media constantly. However, it is necessary to realize that ...

English 1B

Original Thesis Thus, (1) as technology continues to move forward, (2) so will the field of medicine as these two go hand in hand, (3) as shown in the way modern medicine for both hospital and laboratory were developed through laboratory science (Worboys 109), (3) the development of important medical products through macromolecularization developed during World War II (Lowy 119), (3) the apparent link established among medicine, technology, and science as shown in history.

Rogerian Thesis

Neutral The field of medicine will continue to move forward (Worboys 117), and this has been indicated by the products produced by laboratory sciences, as ...

OUTLINE THESIS: Lately, it was possible to find a lot of facts which indicate that medicine does harm to healthy people due to overdiagnosis and widening conception of many illnesses. Overdiagnosis is not an innocuous phenomenon and covers various complications of physical and mental health. I. INTRODUCTION. A. Defining overdiagnosis. B. How overdiagnosis may be harming people. C. Causes of overdiagnosis. II. OVERDIAGNOSIS OF MENTAL ILLNESSES. A. Overdiagnosis of depression. III. CONCLUSION.

Introduction.

Overdiagnosis of illnesses is often more harmful than helpful for human health. Nowadays there are a lot of situations when doctors exaggerate possible outcomes and risks after ...

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 ...