Secondary elaboration refers to the ways in which people try to justify and explain the inconsistencies and contradictions within their beliefs, Robbins (2011, p.96). The reason as to why people tend to use secondary elaboration to explain something is essentially their way of trying to protect their own beliefs and defend them from those who are cynical and doubt them. In Richard Robbins book Cultural Anthro he asks the question when a certain belief system is accepted as if it’s true, how can a
Anthropologists study the behavior of various cultures and societies and try to understand why they believe and practice certain rituals. In the article Body Ritual Among The Nacirema, by Horace Miner and published by The American Anthropologist, the author describes extreme examples of ritual activity that focus on the human body. The Nacirema believe that the body is ugly, diseased, debilitated and in need of help from their local medicine men, "holy-mouth-men", and "listener" witchdoctor. Even
is to say he wasn’t completely right? A topic of long debate also includes the kind of influence that consciously-controlled thoughts can have on the physical body. A year after Wallace’s speech, neurobiologist Helen Pilcher, published “The New Witch Doctor: How Belief Can Kill”, which explains the influence of the mind and individual beliefs on the quality of one’s life. Together, both authors illustrate how detrimental a life lived unaware of one’s own thoughts and beliefs can be on the body and
The New Monkey’s Paw Once on a dreadful night a man named Shmerbert had a dreadful fright…. We start with a man named Shmerbert who just bought a new house. When he walked in with the doctor who so painstakingly took care of him all he could think was wow I have some work to do. The floor was cracked, the walls falling down, the ceiling dripping wet like a faucet, the stairs unclimbable, and the smell of death hung in the air. “Why did you buy this place?” Dr. Zaveri asked. “It was fairly cheap
hot dogs on the stove unattended. Incidentally, her favorite dress caught on fire and burned Jeanette from her stomach to her face. After, Rosemary grabbed Brian and Jeannette and hurried over to the trailer next door. The doctors said Jeannette was lucky to be alive. The doctors took patches of Jeannette’s skin from her upper thigh and put them over the most badly burned parts of Jeannette’s stomach, ribs, and chest. Jeanette was in the hospital for about six weeks when Rex appeared alone in the doorway
com/reading/ncure/chap94.htm), excessive laughing or crying followed by an abrupt return to a normal state, fainting, panic, paralysis, cramps in the body and a “sense of constriction of the throat.” (www.healthlibrary.com/reading/ncure/chap94.htm) The French doctor Jean-Martin Charcot, a pioneer in the field of psychiatry in the mid-nineteenth century, insisted that there were four stages to a “full hysterical attack:” 1. Tonic Rigidity 2. Clonic spasms and grand movements 3. Attitudes passionelles, or vivid
Midwives and Doctors Must Work Together A recent controversy among soon-to-be parents and the medical profession is over the use of midwives. Some say that midwives are a good choice because of their personal, loving, educated and competent obstetric and gynecological care. Stacy Stich of the American College of Nurse-Midwives states, this not only includes the hands on care but also the emotional and supportive aspects. A midwife has the ability to assist a couple through the birthing
Silence Insanity He wondered if he had gone mad. He covered his ears with both of his hands, but he could still hear the garbled voices that were echoing around the room. He sat for a moment behind his desk and slow his breathing telling himself that he was simply tired. A sudden knock at the door caused his heart to skip a beat and with trembling hands, he opened it and a little blond girl with a scraped knee walked in. Carefully he helped her up onto his examining table and as he dabbed at
drifting in mid-air, my mind would not accept these words so instead I was left watching them as if they were solid masses in front of my eyes. Fibromyalgia—a disease that doctors are still studying and many know little about. How could this happen? How did I get this disease? All these questions raced through my mind. When the doctor had no reply, the questions derailed from their thoughtful track and c... ... middle of paper ... ... my children will fall victim. Knowing how life truly is, that
In order to effectively display a certain discontent with society, an author must have the ability to illustrate the specific flaws that exist within that mainstream society. In What the Butler Saw, Joe Orton does an excellent job in illustrating how abuse of authority can have a subversive effect on an individual’s personality. Throughout the play, Orton uses authority as a tool to illustrate how it has the ability to alter a patient’s personality and provoke madness through psychiatric practice
them.” Continuing on in conversation with the white- trash an outburst of thanking the lord aloud causes the young lady to suddenly hurl the book she was reading at Mrs. Turpin and jumping across the table and attempting to choke her. The nurse and doctor try to contain the young girl while slowly giving her a shot in the arm to calm her insanity down. Leaving everyone in shock and disbelief, especially in the case of Mrs. Turpin she boldly asks what the girl has to say to her. Settling her eyes
wrong, I wondered all that evening that the doctor wanted me to come in to discuss my lab results? I had never been asked to come in to the office after doing blood tests before; when receiving a call as this the mind plays tricks on the person and wild things start popping up in the head. "Joyce, I need to leave work at 10 o'clock today to go to the doctor's office." Trying not to show my nervousness the words come out fast. "Let me know what the doctor said", Joyce exclaimed as she walked back to
memories, it is always been my parents took me to the hospital in the middle of the night or tried to find the right doctor for my allergies. Others could just take some medication and rest for few days for common cold, but my story is totally different. A common cold could cause me allergies, asthma and fever when I was young. It is the reason why I spent most of my time seeing the doctor and stayed at hospital. At the age of 10, my parents decided to have me switched to oriental medicine and acupuncture
Rachel Vasone TV Culture April 26, 2014 Series Project: 1970s Drama The Young and the Restless debuted in March 1973 as a American soap opera focused primarily on the personal and professional lives of two families in Genoa City, Wisconsin: the wealthy Brooks and the poor Fosters. The show first revolved around the drama between the Brooks and the Fosters and then shifted to the forever long rivalry between Liz Foster’s daughter Jill and Katherine Kay Chancellor. It started when Jill began work
A Hidden Hero The doctor in William Carlos Williams’ The Use of Force ultimately saves Mathilda’s life but under what motive? His motive to win the battle against her or the motive to actually try to cure her? The fact that Mathilda’s life is on the line brings out the heroic attributes of the doctor in the story. In the end, even though the doctor has malicious thoughts, the doctor is a hero because he ultimately saves Mathilda’s life and continues with helping Mathilda despite her every attempt
quality of life was going to be horrible since he was disfigured with amputated fingers, and he could not w... ... middle of paper ... ...s mind, whether that is better pain treatment or a new doctor and if that doctor fails to satisfy those requests to the point of changing the patients mind then the doctor should grant the patients wish. Cowart suffered through something almost nobody else experiences to that point that he wanted to take his own life away because of all the pain. However, he was
In Susan Glaspell’s short Trifles, Mrs. Wright is being accused of murdering her former husband Mr. Wright. While their house is being investigated, there are a lot of clues that suggest what could’ve happened between Mr. and Mrs. Wright. Susan Glaspell uses many literal techniques throughout the story to give readers a depiction of what’s going on. Glaspell uses irony, symbolism, and themes to distinguish Mrs. Wright’s role in the murder and her character in the story. Glaspell utilizes irony from
A 65 year old terminal cancer patient sits and waits. Everyday her pain increases and the treatment to ease her pain has ceased to work. She wants to escape the pain; she wants to be at peace. The doctors tell her to wait and be patient because she has less than 6 months to live so, she should just fight through, but she cannot, she does not have any fight left. She has had cancer for five years, she has been on a roller coaster of good and bad days since her diagnosis. She is tired. She has requested
When Kino and Juana were in desperate need of help, the doctor wouldn’t come to their aid (11-12). Why would he stop by their house to check on the baby if not without selfish desires? Kino tells the doctor that he is able to pay him after he sells his pearl. Instead of telling Kino that he has heard of his good fortune, he decides to play dumb and says, “You have a pearl? A good
The exact day of my surgery was October 11, 2015. The reason I was going to be having surgery is because for that whole year, I was having extreme pains in my stomach area that I would constantly go to the ER for. Time and time again the doctors couldn 't figure out what was wrong with me until finally in September I had an ultrasound. In that ultrasound they found out that I had a gallbladder stone that was blocking the gallbladder from squeezing out the nutrients and so it kept squeezing which