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...Nicholas Grant Boeving Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2011 The disease model has great therapeutic impact. But is it really telling the truth about addiction? A ddiction is everywhere, it seems, as is the devastation wrought by this disease. But does it even make sense to call...

... to this. I could not get off the suicide train and my only option for survival was to join a weird cult of jargon-spouting lowlifes? And I did not like being told that I had a disease. Aside from wanting to be in a constant state of oblivion, I was perfectly healthy. I completely agree with B...

...-than-average kit that will estimate your chances of getting cancer, risk of certain diseases. heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and myriad other That seems a bit paternalistic. diseases or conditions: just check the ones you No one is mandating genetic testing...

... AND TRISH VRADENBURG OM EONE IS DIAGNOSED W ITH A L Z H E IM E R ’S EVERY this disease, on average, lasts a decade. seventy-one seconds. One in two Americans in their What’s being done? eighties has this disease, and one in ten...

... of disease. » Second, they refused to accept death as separate from life and demanded that the medical environment help them orchestrate “good deaths” for their loved ones. They insisted that hospitals allow friends, lovers, and family to be present at the bedsides, or they declined aggressive measures...

... a cure for Alzheimer’s. Trish’s political involvement was not motivated by personal advancement or financial reward, but rather by a burning commitment in the last two decades of her life to enhance awareness of the growing scourge of Alzheimer’s disease that took the lives of both my mother...

... tering like an undiagnosed disease, cre­ disease, undiagnosed an like tering fes­ are dysfunctions that systemic deep, believe I four problems?” deeper those left. go “Don’t say: to likes Wallis so­ Jim and causes systemic deeper but with symptoms and effects surface...

... and wave of 78 million baby quests the Bush Administra­ the United States are current­ researchers at Rush boomers now hitting the tion has actually cut funds for ly living with Alzheimer’s dis­ Alzheimer’s Disease Center in sixty-year mark, more and research...

... support, composing a population of over 100 million andT lifestyle improvements lead to another twenty-plus-year ex­ today personally and directly affected by the disease. But, amaz­ tension of life expectancy in the twenty-first century? ingly, over two-thirds of the cases of Alzheimer’s...

... incentives that rely on the profits of acute care settings for treatment of terminal illness. In a perverse dialectic, medicine with all its technological and clinical advances, has in fact failed the very people it was supposed to help. Thus, Gawande notes, even in cases of terminal disease, the final...

... into the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. He was in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s when he did this, and he was still mentally competent. VSED is a legal choice. The U.S. Supreme Court has asserted that anyone has the right to refuse food and water. Alan had a kind and competent doctor and twenty-four-hour...

... of the common good; aging brings disease, dependency, and dementia; aging is a curable condition; old people are a burden; old people areM wise. And so on. The new longevity is a stunning achievement. The key question is this: what do we do with it? Today...

... of naked strangers can relieve depression. MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION: THE SECRET HISTORY OF A MODERN DISEASE BY GARY GREENBERG Simon & Schuster , 2010 Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2012 Since this is a review, I cannot go into the details but must move straight to the big questions. What...

... of the enormous amount of meat that Americans consume. Every day, over 3,500 people die from heart disease, stroke, and cancer—as many fatalities as if six 747 jets crashed and killed everyone on board. While people would stop flying if six jets crashed on a daily basis, we have come to accept it as a matter...

... liberties heart disease per year: 450,000 that both Israeli Prime Minis­ tended to prominent figures in and defending free speech will Amount of money U.S. Govt, spends on ter Ehud Olmert and his possi­ the peace movement. In Sep­ be useless until the proto-fas­ “War on Terror” per year: $162 billion...

... threatened by a disease that afflicts not only the State of Israel, but the Jewish community worldwide. The disease is the occupation and it is attacking the cohesiveness of the Jewish people, sowing gratuitous hatred between Jews, and poisoning our public life. I submit that the price of continuing...

... but simultaneously insists on our human limitations: “We are holy — and capable of unimaginable evil.” Holding both, he suggests, is one of the great strengths of the Jewish tradition. Some genetic diseases are more prevalent among Ashkenazic Jews than among the general population, largely because Jews were...

... to the panoply of diseases our percent accurate. I can predict the past difference. Like the guy who came to me poor body politic is suffering from. w ith uncanny accuracy. If it’s already w ith money issues. His nam e was Os­ Along w ith M ad Cowboy Disease, happened, you can count on me...