« Recommendations. Serious violence and injury have life-altering consequences for victims and their families that often cannot be reversed. ...» Document abstract
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SummarySerious violence and injury have life-altering consequences for victims and their families that often cannot be reversed. Prevention and treatment must be priorities.
Violence in the United States is a public health epidemic that is caused by institutional and personal actions. The root causes of violence include inequitable social and economic conditions.
Personal violence is the intentional use of physical or psychological force against another person or against oneself that may result in injury or death. An injury is damage to tissue usually caused by excessive energy transfer.
Table of Contents- Definitions
- Epidemiology
- Secular Trends in Injuries
- Ways to Reduce Injury
- Implications for Medical Practice
- Recommendations
« Domestic violence is a large problem in our country where nearly 5 million The contingency-fee system continues to offer personal injury attorneys the perverse ...» Document abstract
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SummaryMedical writers have recently turned to the opening line of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities to describe these prevailing times in medicine and obstetrics as "the best of times. . . the worst of times. . ." (Grumbach, 1999; Morrison, 2000). Why are these times at once the best and worst of times for obstetrics? There are many reasons for this, and some are now considered.
Table of Contents- The chronicle of maternal and infant mortality during the 20th century described earlier should suggest that much is good in the health care of women and their infants'indeed, better than it has ever been.
- The year 2000 marks the 50th anniversary of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- There are a number of other indicators from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that indicate African-American women are at a significant reproductive disadvantage.
- Other pressing problems include the erosion of health-care safety nets for the uninsured by for-profit plans that all too often quickly abandon the most vulnerable patients when profits are in jeopardy (Bodenheimer, 1997).
- The cost for medical malpractice'insurance premiums, attorney fees, and settlements and awards also continues to erode the health-care dollar.
- Attempts to mitigate some of these contentious issues have been only partially successful because of watered-down versions of legislations engineered by the plaintiffs bar.
« The unexpectedness of the explosion, the violence and random nature of the injury and the likelihood of long-term disability can only add to the difficulty of ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina began shortly after the republic declared its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) in March 1992 and lasted nearly four years. A cease-fire was called in September 1995. A general framework agreement (the “Dayton Agreement”) was signed in Dayton, USA on 21 November 1995 and subsequently in Paris, France by the presidents of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. The Dayton Agreement secured the continuation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a sovereign state within internationally recognized borders. It established a number of important principles designed to stabilize the country and allow the process of reconstruction and reconciliation to begin. Among other things, it recognized that the country was comprised of two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which controls 51 per cent of the territory, effectively a Bosnian-Croat federation that is further divided along ethnic lines at the cantonal and municipal levels; and Republika Srpska (the Serbian republic), which controls 49 per cent, and where there is no cantonal administration. The two entities are divided by an Inter-Entity Boundary Line (IEBL), which, on the whole, runs along the cease-fire line. The Dayton Agreement also established a 4-km-wide Zone of Separation (ZoS) between the two entities.
As a result of the fighting, some 250,000 people are dead or missing and 200,000 were injured out of a population that numbered 4.4 million in 1991. In addition, approximately 3 million people have been displaced. One lasting legacy of the war is the problem of landmines. Although armed hostilities between the various factions officially ended in December 1995, mines continue to have severe human, social, medical and economic consequences for the country. The effects of landmines are widespread and have an impact at all levels of society.
As a result of the fighting, some 250,000 people are dead or missing and 200,000 were injured out of a population that numbered 4.4 million in 1991. In addition, approximately 3 million people have been displaced. One lasting legacy of the war is the problem of landmines. Although armed hostilities between the various factions officially ended in December 1995, mines continue to have severe human, social, medical and economic consequences for the country. The effects of landmines are widespread and have an impact at all levels of society.
Table of Contents- Background
- The Human Impact
- The impact of mines on living standards
« The injury was not just from the pitching that Robinson was not accustomed to Many, of which, contained threats of violence towards them if Jackie did not get ...» Document abstract
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SummaryOn April 15th, 1947, the Dodgers started their new season with a new addition to their team, Jackie Robinson. He made his debut against the Boston Braves at Ebbets Field playing first base. The first series were a flop for Jackie Robinson. Overwhelmed by the pressure, he was unable to produce. Teammates, opponents, and fans racially harassed Robinson on a daily basis. As the next couple of weeks progressed, more problems arose. Although the incidents were unfortunate, they did have a positive spin. Throughout the ordeals, baseball proved its support of Robinson and Robinson proved he was the right man for the experiment (Tygiel 180-182).
Table of Contents- The first incident occurred when the Dodgers played Philadelphia Phillies at home.
- Although the harassment was unfortunate, it did have a positive effect on the Dodger club. It actually brought the team closer together
- The Dodgers were schedule to play the Phillies in Philadelphia on May 9th
- When Robinson arrived at Shibe Park, a photo shoot was set up. Due to the previous incident, the two team owners agreed to have Robinson shake hands with Chapman to increase positive publicity
- Things would eventually slowly start turning around for Robinson and the Dodgers.
« Today, and Tomorrow Terrorism by definition is the systematic use of violence, terror and almost 20 percent more likely to result in death or injury than an ...» Document abstract
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SummaryTerrorism by definition is the systematic use of violence, terror and intimidation to achieve an end. However, this definition has translated into a horrid way of life that has inflicted pain, death and mourning to individuals all over the world. Largely influential countries such as the United States have taken measures to prevent terrorism in the world throughout history. The United States government has been successful in fighting terrorism in the past, but now faces new and more serious threats.
« told forever as high-profile case studies of the darkest reaches of human violence. to carry a man wounded in the leg, exposing himself to injury, exposing the ...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe death toll during World War I surmounted fifteen million. The second World War erased the lives of fifty-five million, nearly five million of which were civilian Jews exterminated throughout Hitler’s tyranny. Nine million died during the Russian Revolution, and twenty million more died during the reign of Stalin. Almost sixty thousand American soldiers died during a small phase of the Vietnam conflict, a small phase that was eventually abandoned as a failure. Yet such numbers, relied on by every modern media source, are only mathematical representations. While striving to paint an honest portrait of war for those on the home front, for those distanced by land and generations, body counts succeed only at numbing the reality of death. They “reduce human suffering to cold statistics” (White). However, “human suffering” has been reduced to ideals far more pathetic than cold statistics for far longer than statistics have even been a common practice of describing war. Death means almost nothing in the modern era. It has been accepted to the point of expectation, and war has become only another means by which to fulfill the promise of finite life. Nations abuse death tolls for political defenses and political attacks, numbers that lie and erase the moral fiber of proper respect for those soldiers and civilians alike sacrificed in the name of the progress of freedom and democracy. Beyond numbers, death is such a common occurrence that soldiers, breathing it and tasting it day to night and year to year forget that it is not inevitable, a phenomenon explored by Joseph Heller in his book Catch-22. Death has become a tool, an object, not a means within itself, but a means to an end result molded in the hands of time and civilization. And war, its greatest ally, with its death tolls and body counts, its endless thirst for blood blurred in the minds of its very victims, the men and the women in uniform and the men and the women hoping and pray and trying to remember the men and the women in uniform in the midst of an easier path, the path to forgetting; war bleeds death in its most carnal form, that of innocent forfeiture.
Table of Contents- The objectification of death in the form of statistics and body counts became prominent during the Vietnam, the first truly televised war.
- Reducing death to statistic appears immoral in and of itself, but the numbers themselves raise numerous other moral issues.
- Since Vietnam, statistics have become essential to explaining any violent act: they have become the obsession of the Western world, the only comparable measurement of death that makes sense of the endless bloodshed around the globe.
- ''I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway??
- Heller's characterization of his soldiers, although written in a very satirical style, is honest.
- Yet in every war movie, every war novel, there is a hero. In Catch-22, there is Yossarian, a man so incredibly sane that he does not want to die, that he will do anything not to die.
- Former soldiers insult their former leaders, former Americans insult their former country.
« so little knowledge of how to make themselves heard, that violence toward others the number of women who died or suffered serious, sometimes permanent, injury. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryFew issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion.
The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choice supporters see individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her body and possibly her entire life, then she has lost one of her most basic human rights. These proponents of abortion believe that while a fetus is a potential life, its life cannot be placed on the same level with that of a woman. On the other side, the pro-life opponents of abortion argue that the fetus is human and therefore given the same human rights as the mother. Stated simply, they believe that when a society legalizes abortion, it is sanctioning murder. In today's more industrialized societies, technology has simplified the abortion procedure to a few basic and safe methods. Technology, however, has also enhanced society's knowledge of the fetus. Ultrasound, fetal therapy, and amniocentesis graphically reveal complex life before birth, and it is this potential human life that is at the heart of the debate. In order to form an opinion on this matter, we must first question and define several common factors which are numerously debated.
The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each group has a self-designated appellation that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. On one side, the pro-choice supporters see individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her body and possibly her entire life, then she has lost one of her most basic human rights. These proponents of abortion believe that while a fetus is a potential life, its life cannot be placed on the same level with that of a woman. On the other side, the pro-life opponents of abortion argue that the fetus is human and therefore given the same human rights as the mother. Stated simply, they believe that when a society legalizes abortion, it is sanctioning murder. In today's more industrialized societies, technology has simplified the abortion procedure to a few basic and safe methods. Technology, however, has also enhanced society's knowledge of the fetus. Ultrasound, fetal therapy, and amniocentesis graphically reveal complex life before birth, and it is this potential human life that is at the heart of the debate. In order to form an opinion on this matter, we must first question and define several common factors which are numerously debated.
Table of Contents- When does human life begin'
- Is abortion immoral'
- The religious aspect
- Can abortion be justified'
- Should abortion remain a personal choice'
- Abortion and the Constitution
- Should abortion remain legal'
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