Thalidomide

Due to the extreme controversy over the topic the Animal Welfare Act was signed into law. This protects the animals and sets guidelines and laws at both the state and local level in order to regulate animal research. This law states that animals must give the animals: access to clean food and water, regular inspections by vets, proper enclosure size, and appropriate temperature. So the animals are not being exposed to improper conditions, or they shouldn’t be according to the law. Also in order…

Note to Mr.P these are my notes From the sources I cited at the end of the document these are not my own facts. There might be a lot of grammar mistakes because they were bulleted points not complete sentences Dementia Dementia is Somatoform, it affects the part of the brain were all you memories are stored. Dementia affects the part of the brain where all your memories are stored,and all your muscle memories are stored. For example driving a car can be muscle memory and people with Dementia…

risk of being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism spectrum disorder usually occurs more often in people who have some genetic or chromosomal conditions ( Silverman 170). When the prescription drugs that are called Valproic acid and Thalidomide are taken during pregnancy, it’s been said that those prescriptions are more of a possibility that a child can be born, and diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder ( Silverman 198). It has also been said that ASD usually occurs, and can be…

Background The background of Autism, how did it all begin? Before Autism was named, our ancestors did not know what it was, but they label it as being mentally retarded.” Eugene Bleuler a Swiss psychiatrist, was the first to use the term in 1911, refer to one in the group symptoms of schizophrenia” (www.webmd.com). It was until the 1940’s when doctors started using the word autism because they found that it was an emotional and social issue. Many thought the person was just insane. One of…

For as long as 20 years, there has been a progressing warmed verbal confrontation on whether probes creatures for the advantage of medicinal and logical research are moral. Whether it is or isn 't, the vast majority trust that some type of money saving advantage test ought to be performed to figure out whether the activity is correct. The cost incorporates creature agony, misery and passing whereas the advantages incorporate the accumulation of new learning or the improvement of new…

Those involved with administering research funding acknowledged the public disapproval generated by the exposure of gross abuses in medical research. Examples of abuses in medical research included the uncontrolled promotional distribution of thalidomide throughout the United States, labeled as an experimental drug; the administration of cancer cells to senile and debilitated patients at the Brooklyn Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital; and the uncontrolled distribution of LSD to children at Harvard…

been inconclusive. Pharmaceutical drugs are not always better than natural remedies. In the past, there have been a number of drugs that have been tested positively in clinical trials, but later had poor effects on patient’s health. For example, thalidomide, a pharmaceutical drug that was portrayed as an effective sedative that helped overcome morning sickness resulted to be ineffective. The faulty drug caused more than 10,000 reported birth defects around the world. Alternative doctors had…

barley any relevance to modern medicine. Firstly, how do we define “harm”? The history of medicine is filled with doctors causing unnecessary harm. For example, Ken Murray of Los Angeles Times shares that to end morning sickness doctors administered thalidomide, causing birth deformities among the babies. Thus, it has been discussed if we should revise the Oath to say “do no intentional harm”. Secondly, doctors do harm by allowing terminally ill patients to suffer. For instance, Murray reports…

tort in Australia. The High Court has been wary of making decisions about what kind of actions are compensatable since the case of Distillers Co. (Biochemicals) Ltd v Thompson (Laura Anne) [1971] which was a case arising due to the effects of thalidomide. In recent years the case of Harriton v Stephens [2006], has been the benchmark for decisions of wrongful life. In this case there was a claim for wrongful life by a disabled child who claimed they would have been better off not to be born,…

What is okay to do in the name of science and its advances? The debate on animal testing has always been around but more and more people are starting to disagree with it. So if so many people disagree with it, why is animal testing still happening? There are places like China where it is actually illegal not to test on animals before selling cosmetics to the public and other places like Europe where it is completely illegal to test on animals for cosmetics. So who’s right? There is the morality…