Scalpel

Pirate ships in the Golden Age of Piracy weren’t very pleasant places to live. It was an exciting life, to be sure, but things weren’t always easy for the sailors. Diseases and injuries were common among the crew. Doctors were scarce and not always well trained, and many pirates died. It is a wonder that so many men chose the pirate life! Life on a pirate ship was greatly influenced by sickness, injuries, and often harmful treatments for both. When pirate problems are mentioned, most people…

To gain the public’s approval and ease their own discontent they modify their original self (Etcoff 25). The only difference between Individual A and B is that individual A goes under the scalpel whereas Individual B does not. Some argue that one change is visible and the other is not, which I strongly disagree with. You can visibly differentiate depressed and happy people, the aura that surrounds them is completely different! Much like how…

Forensic Pathology is a job of forensics. It is the study of the human corpse to determine the cause of death and maybe even the particular time frame of death. A forensic pathologist would have to first start with the crimes scene investigation. He would wanna know all the surrounding of the corpse and the body position of the corpse. Every little thing find at the crime scene would be a very big help. After the crime scene investigation they would take the body back to the lab and they would…

It is was Wednesday morning again. Or was it Thursday? Was it morning? Only through the subtle color of sunlight I can tell the time of day. It 's hard to tell when you haven 't a clock, or you have a clock but it 's broken. Indeed, the ticking of a clock arm had ended long ago. All I hear now are the footsteps behind me, the sound of a young man moping filthy floors that could never shine. They are made of old birch wood, rough and rotten from the spills of science. Much of the furniture are…

In contemporary media, Grey’s Anatomy, shows how people try to incorporate religion into the human quest in the medical field. The show portrays constant friction between science/medicine and how religion is applied to things like surgeries and also give people hope when given bad news. Many of the surgeons struggle with having a God Complex, which means they believe themselves to be infallible. Once they lose the belief of infallibility, then a surgeon can either rely on a higher power or…

Male and Female Genital Mutation/Circumcision This paper will be discussing two forms of circumcision. First I will be discussing Female Genital Mutation also known and Female Circumcision, which is the procedure that involves partial or complete removal of the external genitalia. It is the removal of all or part of the vulva and/ or clitoris. The justification within the boundaries of their cultural beliefs is considered to be a form of social desire in terminating or reducing feeling of sexual…

Animal testing has been a part of our society since the early 1900s. And it appears to me, that not until around 40 years ago or so, people began to realize that testing animals was inhumane on many different levels. But because we are the human beings that we are, we still try to shy away from a lot of the negative consequences of animal testing. It is easier for us to push aside that which is bad and try only to look at the positive aspects. Yet, in my opinion, the cons outweigh the pros.…

Civil War battlefield surgery, surgeons, and nurses were more common on the battlefield during the war because of the severity of the injuries and sickness from disease. Civil War battlefield surgery came to be known as butchery, though it saved many lives of soldiers and helped them possibly get back on the battlefield. The most common surgery that surgeons performed was amputations. Most deaths didn’t occur because of the amputation itself but because of the “surgical fevers,” which usually…

According to the book Ancient Medical Technology: From Herbs to Scalpels, by Mary and Michael Woods, “ An inscription carved into a slab of rock around 226 BC honored an Indian ruler named Ashoka. It praised him for building hospitals.” Ashoka built this hospitals because he had seen his people suffer and knew that…

The big question everyone has been wondering for centuries and centuries to come is, “How did humans advance so far in science?”. It all had to start with an understanding of ourselves first rather than our surroundings. That is where the understanding of our anatomy comes in. Anatomy is the study concerned with the bodily structure of humans and other living organisms. Anatomy has been studied for over many centuries and we have barely skimmed the surface of this vast branch of science. There…