One of the main elements of Western biomedicine is surgery. What do you know about the origin of surgery and some technological milestones in surgery?

What will be an ideal response?


First practiced by early Egyptians and Peruvians some 6,000 years ago. First coronary bypass was performed in 1951, and the first heart transplant was performed in 1967 . Surgery and drugs are the primary attempts to cure or treat illness in Western medicine.

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The observation that conditioned responses to fear-relevant stimuli, such as spiders and snakes, are more resistant to extinction than are those responses to fear-irrelevant stimuli, such as flowers, supports the __________ model

Answer:

Psychology

College students dye their hair blue. A rumor spreads across the country that a fast food chain puts worms in the hamburgers. Members of fraternities loot a resort community. An audience applauds the play. These incidents are all examples of

a.  crowds.   b.  collective processes.   c.  fads.   d.  deindividuation.

Psychology

Acetylcholine is the only neurotransmitter released by ____

a. the sympathetic nervous system's postganglionic synapses b. the parasympathetic nervous system's postganglionic axons c. intrinsic neurons in the spinal cord d. intrinsic neurons of the hippocampus

Psychology

According to the textbook, developing a sense of self is a focus of ____ development.

A. cognitive B. social C. emotional D. temperament

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