Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

According to Laing, the loss of contact with one’s experience; e.g., a sense of separation between one’s self and one’s body.  

Pathological conditions resulting from severe and prolonged stress.  

An official listing of diseases or serious illnesses found in persons exposed to hazardous substances in the environment.  

Involves the interaction of a multiplicity of factors interacting with each other. These factors are the host, agent, and the environment consists of four stages: (a) the stage of susceptibility, which includes a person’s ability to resist the onset of the disease. It is the time when a clinical disease has not yet appeared, but…

Health education methodologies that focus attention on diseases rather than health. It implies negative teaching and learning approaches to health rather than positive approaches to health.  

A person who performs sexually transmitted disease (STD) patient interviewing/counseling and field investigation after initial diagnosis.  

A study designed to measure the occurrence of self-reported disease that may in some instances be validated through medical records or physical examinations, and to determine those adverse health conditions that may require further investigation because they were reported at an excess rate. This study can only be considered hypothesis generated.  

Tasks designed to study the processes by which children learn to distinguish among categories of objects.  

In research, determination of the capacity of two or more independent variables to predict correctly the categorization of individuals scaled on a nominal variable.  

Federal funding for specific programs granted after specific needs are identified and documented.