.... after Karl Friedrich Freihess Von Munchausen, an 18th century figure known for telling extremely tall tales of his adventures. In 1977 an English pediatrician by the name of Meadow first described “,” when he discovered that the mothers of his epileptic patients were inducing their children’s seizures. Due to the extremity of the abuse, nine percent of Munchausen victims die at the hands of their perpetrator, which is the child’s own mother ninety-eight percent of the time (Feldman 147). MSBP is a perplexing and unfathomable disorder. In an attempt to understand it we must .....

.... offer a lot of fact about suicides, but they do not tell why someone wants to die. I believe that many teenagers who attempt and those who commit suicide are really crying out for help. They want the unhappiness and strains in their live to end, but they really do not want their lives to end. When I was in High School at the age of fifteen, I tried to commit suicide. I was looking for a way out of my sad, impoverish, lonely, single-parent life. I thought that the easiest and most convenient way out was to commit suicide. That way I would no longer have to deal with th .....

.... to change his social status. The tobacco industry deceives people with their ads, implying that cigarettes can relieve stress, help you to fit in with the cool kids, and even change the social status of men, women, and teens. A camel smoking a cigarette, wearing a leather jacket, with several beautiful ladies surrounding him portrays the image that smoking is for tough men whom the ladies love. Models are used to illustrate that smoking will make women thinner and more glamorous. Slogans such as "You've come a long way, baby" interprets women's entrance into the business wor .....

.... sperm and a healthy egg and conception in a test tube occurs and then it is transplanted back into the mothers’ womb. This also can create multiple births because of the high number eggs that must be used in order to up the potential of “making a baby”. Many of these couples have options of selected abortion to limit the risk to mother and child. These issues have many feminists and doctors having heated arguments over whether or not to abolish, regulate or just let the infertility drugs go on there course. The first article that I read and analyzed was written by Janice G. .....

.... studies are beginning down a long road of finding the hereditary basis for impulsivity. While these studies continue to search for the genetic source of aggression, child testing programs, drug manufacturers, civil rights activists, lawyers, and anxious citizens await the resulting testimony of the scientists. The social implications of the genetic search for aggressive tendency is seen by some as a great step forward, by others as a dangerous power with the ability to give birth to another Holocaust, and by still others as racist. At one time, it was believed that one’s chara .....

.... writing a death will, many people don't take the time to do so. Therefore, doctors have to debate the question of euthanasia - a question that each one of us should ponder long before we are put in this situation. What is euthanasia? Euthanasia is not mercy killing. It has absolutely nothing to do with killing. On the contrary, euthanasia by definition simply means "good death" and in the applied sense it refers to "the patients own natural death without prolonging their dying process unduly." What this attempts to accomplish is to allow a person to die with peace and d .....

.... Karen was removed from the respirator. To everyone's surprise, Karen began breathing on her own and lived another ten years (Humphry 107). The Quinlan case brought to the forefront patients' desire to die a proud, quiet death. It also brought to the forefront the complications caused by the advancement of medical technology ("Euthanasia"27). Euthanasia has been practiced in Eastern and Western culture since the beginning of civilization. The capability of medical technology to extend life (as demonstrated by the Quinlan case) has made the issue of euthanasia mor .....

.... disease) do have similarities with the effects of normal ageing - Nebes (1992) stated that there is ‘relatively little evidence for qualitative differences between Alzheimer’s disease and normal ageing’. Examples of such similarities between the effects of normal ageing and other experimental and clinical conditions shall be discussed at relevant points during the essay. The physiological effects of ageing on memory are still unclear. However, it is known that there is a correlation between memory decline and the degeneration of neurones. One example of such a link i .....