Essays Tagged: "ailments"

Marijuana Legalization

Imagine that your only father is lying in a hospital bed with one of the many life- threatening ailments. The disease has left him with nothing but agony and he has only a short time left to live. ... ardless of whether the marijuana is used to ease pain or for other symptoms associated with medical ailments. The use of marijuana should only be used when a physician has determined that a patients h ...

(4 pages) 260 0 3.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Music As A Motivator

ho have suffered spinal injuries to help them walk again. It is not necessarily a curefor there ailments, it rather motivates their mind allowing other methods to be more successful.Music thera ... ho have suffered spinal injuries to help them walk again. It is not necessarily a curefor there ailments, it rather motivates their mind allowing other methods to be more successful.Music thera ...

(15 pages) 458 3 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Advantages of being legal

arijuana is medicine and has been used as medicine for thousands of years totreat a wide variety of ailments. It is one of the safest therapeutically active substancesknown. Marijuana is often useful ...

(4 pages) 95 0 4.5 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Milk: Does it Really Do the Body Good?

with America, Mom, and apple pie. Too bad for us, because milk could actually be the cause of many ailments we suffer from as adults and more so as children. Were you ever told by your parents and te ... ms, milk drinkers are also putting themselves at risk for development of other chronic diseases and ailments.In an influential book, written by a former fourth generation dairy farmer and cattle ranch ...

(8 pages) 216 0 3.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Effects of Anabolic Steroids

gative results from theiruse. Along with increased strength and size, users of steroids suffer from ailments like cancer,bad acne, hair loss, damaged organs and intense mood swings.Anabolic steroids a ...

(4 pages) 109 0 4.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Health, Disease and Disability

or injury for granted until we become sick. It is then that we recognize the worth of being without ailments. It is then that we appreciate feeling strong, robust and healthy. Being healthy and, being ... th status from young adult to middle adulthood. Daily illnesses begin to occur such as: respiratory ailments, and musculoskeletal ailments. Chronic conditions begin emerging that limits daily activiti ...

(5 pages) 384 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

A Look Into the Life and Career of a Legend; A Proposal

committed suicide.Troubled by depression, chronic stomach problems, and anaddiction to heroin, his ailments in his personal life showedthrough in his music. His music evolved from the hard "punk"soun ...

(4 pages) 52 1 2.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Risks of Dairy Products and Problems Withing the Dairy Industry

ople believe that dairy products are good for your body and can help prevent osteoporosis and other ailments, when in fact they do much more harm than good for your body. Most doctors will not endorse ...

(6 pages) 143 1 4.1 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Uses drug war politics to outline the sociological theory of how "private troubles" become "social issues"

k as far back as the 2727 B.C. when it was used by the Chinese as medicine for a gamut of different ailments (Henslin, pg. 89). Tobacco was first discovered by western civilization when Christopher Co ...

(7 pages) 204 3 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Hippocrates: The Father of Modern Medicine.

ver, from Ancient China to Ancient Greece, the basic belief that a higher being was responsible for ailments remained stable. People mistakenly believed that illnesses were caused by superstitions, a ... nsible for medicine and therefore, had no power to cure illnesses. These early people believed that ailments were caused by forces out of mans reach. These diseases were therefore "prevented and treat ...

(3 pages) 85 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Legislature of Legalization Medicinal Legalization of Marijuana (MLA Format)

or critically ill people.In the past when "old-time" doctors prescribed a variety of medicines for ailments, drugs of all sorts were accepted. However, in modern times, as more stable drugs have been ...

(6 pages) 310 0 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

HIV and AIDS: Causes and Affects On the Population of Nigeria

e weight loss, fevers, and his coughing would bring forth mucus mixed with blood. Shortly after his ailments began he quit his job, as his co-workers rumored that David had leukemia. David's health de ...

(12 pages) 169 1 4.8 Feb/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Gentle persuasion

de in South Australia, sex even up to a full year before conception helps guard against a litany of ailments.The disorders, which range from infertility to high blood pressure during pregnancy, all ap ...

(3 pages) 57 2 4.4 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Legalization of marijuana; comparison to alcohol and cigarettes

life-threatening diseases today live every day with pain and agony. These patients deal with their ailments with placebo, despite the fact that marijuana has been proven more effective than placebo, ...

(2 pages) 91 1 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Should stem cell research be permitted? To what extent, if any, should possible benefits of this research be thought of as over-ridding any moral objections some might have to such research?

lly any cell in the human body thus having the potential to save lives, treat and cure diseases and ailments. It is hotly debated because the stem cells that are used are derived embryos, which when r ...

(6 pages) 384 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Radioactivity

ant.A certain woman scientist by the name of Marie Curie used radiation as a method to cure various ailments. This polish scientist worked as a doctor and introduced the whole concept of using radium ...

(3 pages) 38 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Psychological Factors in Physical Disorders

create the appearance of illness; give themselves medication secretlyoften research their supposed ailments and may become very knowledgeable about medicinemunchausen syndrome- the extreme of and lon ... extreme stress, and last a matter of weeksSomatization Disorderhave numerous long-lasting physical ailments that have little or no organic basisBriquet's syndrome- a person must have multiple ailment ...

(2 pages) 77 0 3.7 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

State of mind and positive attitutes correlate with better physical health

lti-million dollar industry. Every year people spent lots of money, searching for a remedy for many ailments, when sometimes the cure lies within. Dr. Benson MD states, "In recent years mind-body medi ... wever, if we estimate where and when the balls are thrown, we can try to avoid them.A cure for most ailments is generally quite costly; however the mind-body connection will cost you nothing but time ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Stem cell research

y hold "the key to endless mysteries of human biology, as well as someday help provide the cure for ailments as diverse as diabetes, Parkinson's, spinal cord degeneration, and Alzheimer's." ( Para.3). ...

(8 pages) 145 0 4.4 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The disabled Community

such tightly knit groups, and why do some disabled people avoid them? There are a myriad of ailments that we, as physically complete, would call disabilities. The United States Census Bureau s ...

(4 pages) 48 0 0.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters