Voluntary muscles are muscles that are controlled by a conscious thought such as the arm, leg, and trunk muscles. I chose Lou Gehrig’s disease, because it took the life of a loved one. Lou Gehrig’s disease may be rare, but it is fatal once the disease progresses. My great-grandfather, Walter McBride, had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at age 63 and passed on at age 64. Like many other cases, the disease wasn’t diagnosed in time for any treatment, nor would it have helped.
Discrimination at Large Growing up, obesity has always been an issue in my family. I have watched most of the women in my family go from diet to diet in the hopes of losing weight. We as a society have placed so much emphasis on looking a certain way or thinking skinny is healthy that we have created a stereotype where being overweight is seen as gross or unhealthy. Obesity is stereotyped in a negative way in many countries. Studies have shown that adults describe obese people by undesirable attributes such as lazy, unappealing, unhappy, unpopular and sloppy (Harris et al., 1982; Tiggemann and Rothblum, 1988; Ryckman et al., 1989; Cogan et al., 1996).
He has a heart condition and his defects weren’t accepted. In a not too distant future he was labeled an invalid meaning he wasn’t perfect like those of genetic birth. Those with an invalid label were denied the basic rights of freedom of choice. When his doctor said that he will only live up to the age around thirty, his parent is disappointed because of his poor genes. Then they decide on having another child who born with genetic modification.
The History of Cystic Fibrosis What is cystic fibrosis? Cystic fibrosis is caused by a mutated gene. A person diagnosed with cystic fibrosis inherits two mutated cf genes, one from each parent. Everyone who has cystic fibrosis was born with it. After birth cystic fibrosis cannot be developed nor can it be contagious.
According to the American Obesity Association (2002), obesity is a “complex, multi-factorial chronic disease involving environmental (social and cultural) and genetic, physiologic, metabolic, behavioral and psychological components.” AOA points out that approximately 127 million adults in the U.S. are overweight, with 60 million being obese. Overweight is defined as a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 25 or more and obesity is 30 or more. Added to the health problems engendered by excess body weight is the social stigmatization faced by excessively overweight people, mainly young women and youngsters. A 2001 scientific study found “clear and consistent stigmatization, and in some cases discrimination….in three important areas of living: employment, education and healthcare” (Obese people suffer bias…). In addition, overweight and obese people are portrayed in a negative way in the media, including television and movies.
This specific karyotype is an example of a man with lesch-nyhan syndrome. Men primarily get the disease because they have only 1 X chromosome that they receive from their mother. If the mother is a carrier of the gene, there is a 50% chance that her son will have the infected gene. Elizabeth: So you’re saying that if I have a boy then there is a chance he won’t have it? Chloe: Yes, but there
In the case of Baby Boy Doe, the infant is left to die of starvation and dehydration due to a diagnosis of duodenal atresia as a result of having been deemed born mentally retarded. As neither the parents nor the physician could determent the severity of mental retardation at the period of his birth, this decision was preferred by Baby Boy Doe’s parents. Ethically, as parents of the infant, there should be questions raised as to the appropriateness of allowing the infant to starve to death. Ethically, parents are deemed responsible to provide care and basic needs of care. The fact that the parents could, and even would, deny their infant son such basic needs simply due to the fact he had been declared mentally retarded seems a major ethical faux pas.
These individuals have a problem with perception as far as their body image goes. It is said that about 10 percent of individuals suffering from anorexia are male (Robb & Dadson, 2002)[4]. This recent increase is thought to be associated with the use of steroids in young men. Men with this disorder are nothing like the many women who suffer from it. Women are more prone to develop an eating disorders because they "feel fat," wherein men are often medically overweight at some point during the disorder and then come to feel a sense of pressure to be thin.
SCHIP Background Between 1987 and 1989, a peak number of uninsured children lacked access to regular health care because their families lacked the means to pay for health service. According to a Health Affairs Organization report, twelve million children had no health insurance coverage (Cartland & Yudkossky, 1993). This 1993 report suggested that an expansion of Medicaid coverage would not decrease the number of uninsured children because of Medicaid’s income eligibility threshold restrictions (Cartland & Yudkossky). Problems persisted prior to federal enactment of State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), approximately 10 million of children across the nation lacked access to health insurance coverage (Smith, 2008). A sizeable portion of these children lived in middle-class families that could not afford private health insurance or from families near or below federal poverty income limits that did not enroll in Medicaid (Smith, 2008).
http://uk.ask.com/reference/dictionary/wordnetuk/110881/multiple%20sclerosis John entered into the end stages of MS near the end of 2007 and the turning point for this was when he was no longer able to swallow. John requested that when it reached this stage that he didn’t have a peg feed (a type of feeding tube) inserted and he be allowed to die through lack of nutrients. However, John’s wife and his daughter couldn’t see him die so they gave consent and asked for John to be peg fed. John’s end stage MS means he cannot move any part of his body wilfully, apart from his fingers and his left arm in a basic motion of up and down. He sometimes smiles and can move his neck and head in a nodding motion, he also has double vision due to the hyosine that he has through a syringe driver along with other drugs.