Conjoined twins

The Fatal Choice The aim of this paper is to discuss the ethical decision to continue or terminate a pregnancy after the diagnosis of a fatal fetal condition. Through the use of previous articles and discussions on this topic, both views will be explored with facts. The decision to terminate or continue a pregnancy falls on the parents, and there are many factors that go into making this decision. The term fatal fetal condition, or lethal malformation has many definitions, and finding just one…

Did you know that Dr. Benjamin Carson is the first American Neurosurgeon to successfully separate a conjoined twin who were joined at the top of their heads? Dr. Carson grow up in poverty with a single parent who dedicated her life to make sure her son would become successful in life. “As a child I hated poverty,” Dr. Carson stated within his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast. Although he was born in a situational stage were poverty was his main obstacle, Carson mother didn’t allow the…

Growing up in a single parent household, in inner city Detroit, as a black boy in the fifties through the sixties, you could describe Ben Carson’s childhood as a challenge. His mother, one of 24 children, only had a third grade education. With all of this combined, as a young child, Ben had a horrible temper, low self esteem, and was an atrocious student. How could he care about getting good grades, when he was surrounded by people who had never and did not aspire to achieve in school? However,…

returned to Johns Hopkins in 1984 and continued to grow in skill and dedication. By 1985, he became director of pediatric neurosurgery at the young age of thirty three. From 1987 to 2003, Carson became a global phenomenon as he separated several conjoined twins throughout the world. Although not every surgery was successful, Carson became known as one of the nation's twenty foremost physicians and scientists (Biography.com Editors). He also began traveling to schools, businesses and hospitals…

humor. He didn’t have as much of a chance to voice his opinions as the more heavily attacked candidates. Carson is a 64 year old American born author, politician, and a retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. He was the first ever surgeon to separate conjoined twins heads and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, presented to him in 2008 by former president George W. Bush. Other than his accomplishments in the medical field he is known for his highly conservative ideals and commentaries,…

Horror can be described as an intense feeling of fear, shock or disgust caused by something frightful. This emotion is one that is used by the film industry to their advantage, by shocking and frightening the audience into being entertained. 20th Century Fox’s American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the horror genre television show. The show premiered in 2014, and follows a struggling freak show in the 1950s trying to make money by acquiring the most unique freaks in town. The…

Hans, is jealous of Hans’s attraction for Cleopatra. In addition to this central love plot, the other freak shows performers have agency in their own character developments. For the most part they are portrayed as round characters, such as the conjoined twins, played by famed performers the Hilton Sisters, who both have established relationship with some of the performers. On the other hand, other freak show performers are relegated to the back ground and only become useful in the film’s…

Neurosurgery There are eight main parts of the brain. There are traces of ten different elements from the Periodic Table of Elements in the brain. Neurosurgery has dated back to around 10,000 BCE. The person who created modern neurosurgery was Harvey Cushing. Other famous neurosurgeons are Walter Dandy, A. Earl Walker, Donlin M. Long, Henry Brem, and Ben Carson. There are different specialties a neurosurgeon can choose to do. There are a lot of diseases that need neurosurgeons to treat them.…

Until recently, I worked as a physician at a primary care clinic one day a week in addition to my job as a science reporter for a newspaper. In two decades, I had only one patient taking opioids long term. She was in her 50s when I met her. She’d spent many years working in factories making cups, boxes, and other things, until they’d all closed down. She ended up at a commercial laundry, on her feet eight hours a day. Of her many medical problems, the one that concerned her most was low-back…

and beauty. This results in a question for this disabled as to where the line is drawn between reconstructive and cosmetic surgery (10). Many more medical concerns are discussed, such as immediate surgery for intersexed infants, euthanasia, conjoined twins, and selective abortion. There’s such a push to ensure that individuals who don’t meet the norm, who are viewed as having some sort of disability solely from their state of being, take drastic measures, that the very concept that we’re somehow…