Disease Essay Examples and Topics

When I started working at Good Samaritan Society in Moscow, I had three patients who suffered from Parkinson’s Disease. At the time I didn’t know much about the disease other than people who do have PD usually suffered from a constant tremor. I knew that…

Cancer is a life-altering disease that affects not only the patient but the people around them as well. Cancer has become so prevalent that many families are used to its harmful ways. Cancer affects the totality of the patient. The patient and their perception of…

Sunshine it may seem but yellow for once had been a scary colour, for in the past it sent people running away from their homes while fire still burning in their chimneys and with doors unlocked in fear. Because who would not when someone turned…

Infertility seems to be a growing issue among many men and woman. Infertility can lead to many issues within relationships and negatively affect a person’s well-being as many people view having children as a milestone in their lives. Infertility can be caused by a variety…

I remember living in Ghana and fearing that my country would contract the Ebola virus back in 2014 because most of their neighbouring countries had, thus it seemed inevitable that my country would soon be infected with it. The Ebola virus is very deadly and…

Many people know of someone who has breast cancer. That is because breast cancer is the second most common cancer in women following skin cancer. It is also the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in women, behind lung cancer. Second place is not a good…

Cerebral palsy is described as a, “group of permanent disorders affecting the movement and posture,”  and a person’s ability to maintain balance. These disturbances can appear, “in the developing fetal or the infant brain,” and is the, ‘most common physical disability of children”. Most often…

 In Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony, poetry is paired alongside text to communicate traditional perceptions of healing. In the novel, folklore presents a collective and holistic outlook on modern medicine. This is important since Western medical techniques are not always beneficial in the cultural context…

Coronary artery disease is one of the many forms of cardiovascular disease. It is a serious condition in which blood does not properly circulate through the blood vessels that carry oxygen to the heart muscle, the coronary arteries. It presents a significant burden in the…

Addiction is all around us, affecting people from all aspects of life, for it is not limited to certain social classes or lifestyles. It is found in every ethnic group, regardless of gender or age. It affects our neighbors, our friends, and our family either…

In this essay I will be evaluating why should healthcare be free whether or not individuals with self-inflicted diseases or illnesses should be provided with free healthcare under the NHS (National Health Service) or if they should be required to pay for the treatment they…

Medical, scientific or cosmetic testing is something that no living thing should endure. Using inhumane techniques to produce products that would sit forgotten about in bathroom cabinets or kitchen cupboards should be immediately banned. How could we justify killing, for instance, man’s best friend, just…

Naturalism is the belief that disease has a pathological cause, and that people either have a disease or do not- it is objective and clear-cut and mirrors the literal translation of. Regarding health a naturalistic view means ‘the absence of disease’, or therefore being at…

 Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a disorder that can cause sudden death, as well as heart failure. 1 out of 2500, are affected by DCM (Zhao et al 1). It is centralized to the left ventricle in most cases and symptoms of this disease produce an enlargement…

According to the history, the plague originated from China and went to Europe through the Silk Road. The deadly plague was caused the bacterium Yersinia pestis and it was carried and transmitted by fleas from the rats. It occurs in three forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and…