Chapter 15 introduced us to heredity and disease. I took an Intro to Genetics class last semester so I had a pretty good background going into this chapter. All the stuff about Genetic testing and Counseling was like repeat. I learned the most from chapter 20 on alternative medicines. Some of the things I learned were about naturopathy and biomagnetic therapy. Naturopathy is an alternative medicine that uses nutrition,herbs, massage, and other techniques to promote healing, while biomagnetic therapy uses magnetic fields to treat pains,ailments and disease. Im sure there are many people who swear by these alternative medicines. In the discussions I was introduced to some information on acupuncture, and learned more about it by checking out a website. I also learned more about dwarfism in the discussions. That there are so many things that causes that one problem.
Some new vocabulary:
quackery : promotion and sale of unapproved and worthless products,especially for medical problems and health enhancement.
homeopathy: an alternative medicine that administers very dilute solutions of substances that mimicthe patients symptoms
subluxation: misalignment of a vertebra from its correct position.
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