Essays on Health

In early part of 19th century, Dr. James Esdaile, a surgeon working in Kolkata under the East India Company, with the help of his native assistant, experimented with and used Mesmerism as  a pain relieving technique during the surgeries he performed and also in some...

Under the recent scrutiny directed towards the Supreme Court after appointing Brett Kavanaugh, there has been turmoil on whether women’s foundational access to abortion will be revised. The debate linked with abortion practices has deepened the polarization between supporters and opponents throughout several decades. Evidently...

There are a vast number of topics with both legal and ethical implications faced by healthcare professionals every day in the healthcare setting. One of those topics include Roe v. Wade and its impact on the practice of obstetrics and gynecology over time. Abortion brings...

The ideology of ‘cannabis psychosis’ has been deemed a controversy since cannabis’ association with psychosis had not been undoubtedly demonstrated. Early evidences implied that it was a precise entity, due to prolonged pharmacological effects suggested that the possibility that chronic psychosis could occur for the...

In this research paper I will prove that the 1973 abortion upon demand decision by the U.S. Supreme Court was arbitrary in nature and had no basis in truth. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the legal point of view on abortion based on the...

Have you ever felt as if someone following you when there is actually nobody around you? Or have you ever experience seeing something that anyone couldn’t see? These experience of questioning the sense of reality from time to time is involving one under 200 people...

Psychosis is a mental state of altered sensory perceptions which is a collection of symptoms rather than a disease, where a person’s mood, perceptions, thoughts or even behaviors might alter. A person may not function in self-care and everyday tasks with psychosis. The most common...

In 1973, Norma McCorvey, a Texas woman who used the pseudo-name ‘Roe’, grew up in poverty, wanted to terminate her unwanted pregnancy. At the time, wealthy American women could obtain safe, legalized abortions by traveling to other countries or bribe a doctor to secretly perform...

The term ‘psychosis’ is one that has been associated with a variety of different processes and behaviours amongst the years. More is constantly being learned, and something that used to be associated with supernatural causes, and subsequently simply as result of physical trauma and bodily...

When looking at the contributions of nature and nurture on adolescent mental health, it is likely that the causes of illnesses such as Psychosis, are not nature or nurture individually, but actually a combination of the two; therefore it is important to discuss how they...