The Sickness

Altitude/Mountain Sickness Altitude sickness happens because the rate of ascent into higher altitudes outpaces the body's ability to adjust to those altitudes. In other words, the body was not able to acclimatize to high altitude and was not able to adjust in the increasing ventilation to compensate to the low level of oxygen in higher altitude. Trigerring factors maybe ascending too quickly, over exhertion in ascent, inadequate fluid intake, hypothermia and alcohol consumption. Altitude…

surprise me. “Sickness Around America” gave a variety of examples of the failing system we partake in. They showed where and how our system failed it’s citizens, and how they “fell through the cracks”. After watching the documentaries, it would validates most peoples thought about our healthcare system. It would be really hard to argue that our system should stay the way it currently is. A reform is just the start in a desperate cry for our country to be successful in that aspect. In “Sickness…

I reviewed the case study “Ethical Response to Sickness” by group 6. The group did a good job presenting the facts. Ethical principles were correctly identified. I believe it good and fair to provide medical service to anyone in need regardless of their immigration status/ legal status. The group identified 5 stakeholders. The ethical decision making process was not so easy to follow/clear. The pros and cons of each option presented were weighed. The group offered primary and secondary decision…

The Sweating Sickness In the Medieval Times most people have heard of The Black Death, meanwhile medieval English went through an epidemic called the sweating sickness. The sweating sickness took thousands of lives. Even though the sweating sickness took more lives than the Black Death, it grew infamous because its victims who got it died within 24 hours by sweating to death. Scientists say there is antibiotics to cure the illness but don’t know how a person becomes about with it, modern…

Søren Kierkegaard is an existential philosopher, which means he places a major emphasis on an individual’s freedom and existence. In Kierkegaard’s book, The Sickness unto Death, Kierkegaard tries to offer his reader’s a complex answer to very popular question what is human nature. He concludes in his work that human beings are an embodied spirit and that our spirit is one in the same with our self. The more we use our free choice, the more we become our individual selves which is an act of…

Do pharmaceutical companies produce for the good or for their own interest? By drawing on authors Michael Oldani, Arthur Schafer, Alan Schwarz, Carolyn Abraham, Pat and Hugh Armstrong, the films Selling Sickness and Marketplace, and a lecture by Shelley Z. Reuter, I will illustrate their main points regarding the gift cycle and their new guidelines, marketing drugs, the pharmaceutical companies’ unsafe methods, and why pharmaceutical companies are one of the key problems within the Canadian…

One of my quick writes was on September 14. In Renee Engel's book “Beauty sickness” I was assigned to read chapter 8 (Anti)Social Media and Online. This chapter was about how social media changed the way we get ready every day and we find things that we don’t like about our bodies because we want to look like ideal body and face. She mentions that “This shows how some girls decides to take pictures, but they edit them because they don’t like the way they look. Girls use several apps to edit…

HYPNOTHERAPY CASE STUDIES ADDRESSING MOTION SICKNESS When the average person thinks about motion sickness, images of riding on a roller coaster or other thrill-seeking ride comes to mind. However, individuals from all walks of life experience this type of travel sickness whenever partaking in any mode of transportation fast or slow. Is this all in the mind and can it be overcome? This article will explore case studies where hypnotherapy was used to overcome bouts of travel related sicknesses.…

writers of his time to become experts. The introduction paragraph describes a kind of sickness that took over his body. He describes “…a kind of blind fever, a pounding in the skull and fire in the bowels,” a sickness that is sure to ruin someone’s life. At first, it is clear that he is talking about a physical sickness that he has gotten, but as the story progresses we see that he is talking about a figurative sickness. “There is not a Negro alive who does not have this rage in his blood, one…

Sickness Unto Death is a book by Soren Kierkegaard and in this book he focuses mainly around the idea that humans are in a sickness called despair. In this book he gives reasons for why humans are in despair and how we can go about getting out of it. In this exposition I will use Kierkegaards ideas to explain to you, the reader, the same ideas he is trying to explain but in a simpler manner. Without further ado let’s get into the first section of Kierkegaards work. We start at the first…