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Medicine Assignment

Question 1: define Functional, Brain and Social Death. How might the idea of social death be a factor in teens Suicide? In practice the concept of brain death is generated from a tragic dilemma as a result of technological developments in medicine. If, however, the patient is on ventilatory support, and this is not withdrawn, in this situation could last for several days until they finally produce the final cardiac arrest. In both cases, clinical death comes for "brain death" and for its clinical diagnostic assessment is identical, but simply believes that it is faced "a corpse" and that it may be reasonable and prudent to sign the death certificate once the body has been desentubado since it would display "limitation of treatment." There is a fairly general consensus in western medicine on the criteria and how to proceed to a correct diagnosis of "brain death". It is my intent to take in this place the protocol for the diagnosis of brain death and the problems involved in its implementation and that I have discussed elsewhere. VIBERT developed a scheme to determine the functional point of death, which was based on the following premises: 1. If the body is warm, limp and without lividity, there is an absence of vital functions (respiratory, circulatory and brain), death dates back to six or eight hours. 2. If the body is still warm but stiff, and is livid that disappear by simple digital pressure, death dates back six to twelve hours. 3. If the body is cold and stiff in the absence of any vital and lividity are very marked, unchangeable, without due by putrefaction, the time of death dates back to 24 to 48 hours.

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4. If the stiffness is gone and there are green spots abdominal, death dates back more than 36 hours. Social death is part of a global phenomenon, that of death and its various manifestations associated with loss and separation. As Louis-Vincent Thomas *, sociologist, founder member of Thanatology * (1922-1994) describes the death "touches everything that is part of the time: companies that are crumbling, the cultural systems that fall into decay, the objects that wear to disintegrate residue and ruins. Apart from physical death by the homogeneous reduction and fall in entropy, there is biological death that is expressed by the body: death resulting from systematic organizational complexity of living and especially the sexual life, death genetic reflecting a "deprogramming programmed" fixing our life, death due to quantum random mutations or cumulative errors in the program master molecules of our brain (information sharing DNA-RNA). But it also speaks of spiritual death: that of the soul in mortal sin, according to Christian themes. Thus, this is the main factor that causes the increased suicide rate in teenagers. Disappearance of some people who suddenly flee their families, their careers, their work, their profession, their office, their property and start their lives elsewhere. We know all these amazing stories like that of a university professor, a judge or a businessman who leaves a bourgeois environment to become a plumber, real estate agent or a night watchman in another region , city or country and never show signs of life at his former family or social circle. This kind of problem with their disappearance "survivors", not only in terms of worries and anxieties associated with mourning * - it should say "loss" - but mostly because of the lack of certificate or declaration of death of the deceased. Include all administrative issues related to pension, insurance, inheritance, access to the vault of the bank, etc.. Disappearance as a form of social death is relatively rare but more common than we think is sometimes considered and treated as a suicide, attempted suicide or suicidal ideation, that

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is to say a change radical identity, like death of a person (depending on its status and its role in society), the death of a character who abandons his status and role to fulfill another. A metamorphosis that has psychological and social effects on the person himself and his entourage. Personal identity and privacy of the deceased may remain intact or nearly so, but there is a radical break in their lifestyles (clothing, housing, food, work, leisure, dating, expenses, etc..) The phenomenon of disappearance occurs commonly in men around their forties or fifties, what is already called their "change of life" or "andropause".

Question Two: what compensates for a reduction in reaction time as you get older? There are also some reductions in the reaction times with age. Psychologically it happens that the tendency of a person to react reduces with the age limit. As the person starts getting older, then his tendency toreact decreases with time. These changes are normal and natural, but it is not necessary for each individual. Moreover, despite the slowdown in the major functions of the body, initially healthy vital organs are capable of functioning at an average of up to 120 years old. What is the most pleasant, least of all susceptible to this aging human brain. Losing the age of 80 to 20% of its weight, the brain, however, continues to operate successfully. The peculiarity of the nerve cells in that they have throughout their lives do not divide and regenerate, remaining unchanged from birth to death. Only change the number in adults die every day from 50 to 100,000 brain cells. Perhaps, this is the reason for reducing the reaction rate with age, we need more time to understanding the situation and response. But for a healthy person, these are minor deterioration, and therefore almost invisible. An elderly person who has not suffered a serious injury or illness, shall not lose the sharpness of mind, he has not observed any decrease in intelligence, nor the loss of skills. The only

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feature of the age - the loss of flexibility of perception. Even the geniuses who have lived to a ripe old age and continue their creative work, not create a fundamentally new ideas, but only develop old ones. Scientific studies have confirmed that high intellectual activity throughout life prolongs its life and allows you to minimize the inevitable age-related changes.

Question 3: Why is the death of a child harder to deal with than that of an adult? It is very difficult to deal with the child than with the death of an adult. The main reason is our psychological thinking. When an adult dies, people are mentally prepared, but nobody expects a child to die. The main reason is our thinking. A person cannot expect that his/her child will die, rather mentally prepared about the death of the adult. This is the reason that why the death of the child is difficult to bear than the death of the adult.

Question 4: Does american society have a good understandind of suicide? what should we teaching about suicide? The death of a loved one by suicide is often shocking, painful and unexpected. The sentence that follows can be severe, complicated and long lasting. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in people 15 to 29, behind accidents and homicides, and the sixth leading cause among children 5 to 14 years. Long a problem among male adolescents (13 to 19 years), the suicide rate among adolescents aged 10-17 years and young women (18-24 years) has tripled in the last 25 years. While girls are more prone to depression than young people, teenagers and young men are four times more likely to commit suicide. According to the American Association of Suicidology, a previous suicide attempt, exposure to suicide or suicidal thoughts and ideas of someone, and / or recent severe stressful conditions (eg pregnancy out of wedlock, a significant loss), increase the

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likelihood suicide. Also, having access to lethal means such as weapons or chemicals, greatly increases the chance of a successful attempt. Certain realities of development are critical to understand and prevent suicidal behavior in adolescents. Among these are: (a) the natural tendency to become introverted young people in as they strive to understand their identity, (b) the significant changes that occur in relationships between parents and children while young people begin to independent and develop meaningful relationships with their own age, and (c) the increased cognitive ability to think abstractly and understand, sometimes naively, the deeper aspects of life. To better understand how these factors interact to create an environment conducive to suicidal behavior, we need to review issues such as psychological status of young people, environment, relationships with peers and spiritual life.

Question 5: Mitosis Or Meiosis? what is the difference? Meiosis is a division mode that puts a cell of the diploid state (two copies of genetic information) in haploid cells (one stock): generally called gametes but spores in fungi, algae , etc. .. This division has two stages. In the first, the elements of each of the stocks are recombined chromosome in a random manner or not in the second the number of gametes produced four passes. While the number of chromosomes is characteristic of the ploidy of an organism, the amount of DNA in the nucleus is not because it varies depending on when the cell is observed.

Behavior of chromosomes

Mitosis: homologous chromosomes separate Meiosis: Homologous chromosomes are paired to form bivalents until anaphase I

Number of chromosomes in meiosis reduction

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mitosis-identical daughter cells meiosis-haploid daughter cells

Genetic identity of progeny:

Mitosis: identical daughter cells Meiosis: The daughter cells have a new variety of paternal chromosomes. Meiosis: chromatids not identical, exchange of segments

Question 6: Dualistic vs relativistic thinking how are these related? Dualism is the concept that our mind is more than just our brain. This concept implies that our mind has an intangible dimension, spiritual, which includes consciousness and possibly an eternal attribute. One way to understand this concept is to consider our self as a container, which includes our physical body and physical brain with another mind, spirit, or non-physical soul. The mind, spirit, or soul, is considered the conscious part that manifests itself through the brain, similar to how the waves of sound and image manifest themselves through television. The wavelengths of the picture and sound are intangible as well as mind, spirit, or soul. With dualism we would expect the spiritual mind has attributes similar to its source. If the source is the God of the Bible, the concept of dualism is consistent with the Bible. Genesis 1:26 says: "And God said, Let us make man in our image and likeness ... '" Genesis 2:7 says: "The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being. "Luke 23:46 says:" Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, 'Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.' " In this instance the historical relativism. The relativism is an attitude or a doctrine that denies an absolute value ( R ) to its object. It is to support our opinions, our ideas are not valuable

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in itself, but are only "relative" to something else: a historical period, culture, likes, dislikes and moods and other. Earlier we saw the aesthetic relativism in beauty that comes in relativism subjective , relativism historical relativism and cultural . Relativism is an attitude so prevalent that it is very easy to spot because it replicates everywhere, in the field of politics, science, morality, philosophy or religion. It is also a trend characteristic of postmodernism is marked by relativism full of values. As critical and relativistic worldview is central to the modern worldview, an understanding of logic and specificity of this world is a direct instrument for achieving systemic understanding of the methodology of modern knowledge, in which each cognitive model requires the specification of its applicability. Indirectly, systemic understanding of the methodology is the key to understanding the alternatives and the relativistic metaphysical thought - the most fundamental ontological problem of the 20th century.

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