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Collective Intelligence Flashcards

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Facilities open to drug users where they can inject IV drugs under the supervision of health care professionals

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injections sites

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includes assisted death, ending suffering, ending life, and having a choice about one’s own death

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euthanasia

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Passive euthanasia

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involves the options of disconnecting or not connecting patients to life prolonging machinery and allowing them to die naturally

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involves a deliberate act that terminates or shortens the life of terminally ill patients who would otherwise live longer

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active euthanasia

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suicide through the help of professional medical member

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physician assisted suicide

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What is CRISPR

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CRISPR technology is a simple yet powerful tool for editing genomes. It allows researchers to easily alter DNA sequences and modify gene function.

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Mass media debate on CRISPR

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curing disease vs. designer babies

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scientist debate on CRISPR

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call for specific regulation vs. pose a general ban on research

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bioethics debate on CRISPR

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desirability and feasibility of gremlin editing

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pharmaceutical companies debate on CRISPR

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as a personalized medicine

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an illness that is characterized by irregular eating habits and severe distress or concern about body weight or shape

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eating disorder

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a person who is focused specifically on muscle mass or body size

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muscle dysmorphia

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muscle dysmorphia is a subtype of

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body dysmorphic disorder

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14
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meat consumption is not commonly addressed as an issue by…

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NGO’s

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a chronic brain disorder that affects about one percent of the population, where delusions, hallucinations, trouble with thinking and concentration, and lack of motivation

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Schizophrenia

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Controversies of schizophrenia

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  1. Lack of recognition of the illness as a spectrum
  2. Stereotypical framing of schizophrenia supports discourse of some mental illnesses as ‘better or worse’
  3. Negative affects ability to treat those with both mild and severe psychotic disorders, an even those with mood disorders
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nutrient rich foods that are considered more beneficial than normal foods

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superfoods

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Superfoods are often described as having a

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specific super quality such as being highly anti-oxidant or even targeted to curing or preventing a condition or disease

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3 aspects of neoliberalism in the legitimacy of superfoods

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  1. Favours free market capitalism
  2. The superfood ideal constructs products as progressive, but it relies on neoliberal business practices
  3. contradictory adoption of the “alternative food networks” movement
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Harm reduction includes

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Policies, programs and practices that aim to reduce the harms associated with drugs in people that are not willing or unable to stop

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Harm reduction focuses on

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reaching harm rather than preventing drug use itself

22
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Harm reducing in injection sites accepts what notion?

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that some people are unable to stop using drugs

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What was Bill C-2

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an act to amend the controlled drugs and substances act

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What does B C-2 allow

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neighbourhoods can have a say in whether or not an injection site will open up or continue to stay open

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One of the world’s oldest known drugs, used since before the common era for many purposes

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opioids

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What was marketed to the public in the 19th century to help with addiction to opioids?

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morphine

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The US Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 enabled

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criminalization of non-prescription use of opioids

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Between 1991 and 2013, opioid prescription rose from 76 million to

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207 million

29
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how many Americans struggle with an opioid addiction?

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2.1 million

30
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the prevalence of obesity has been linked to

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lower socioeconomic status

31
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applying public policy to control obesogenic foods can improve the health of individuals who purchase them because

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they have no better options due to monetary issues

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The constant stigmatization of obese people can reduce

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economic advancement and keep these people in povertu

33
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cost of obesity in Canada

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up to $7 billion

34
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the oldest record of medicinal marijuana comes from

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Chinese texts, 5000 years ago

35
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What drug is mentioned in the hindu sacred text, Atharvaveda?

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Cannabis

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In what year did India start trading MJ with the British?

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1856

37
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When was MJ first banned in Canada

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1923

38
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Regulated MJ was legalized in what year

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2001

39
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4 aspects of the compass of shame in relation to plastic surgery

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  1. Withdrawal
  2. Attack Self
  3. Attack Others
  4. Avoidance
40
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3 stakeholders against birth control

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  1. Pharma
  2. Women’s rights groups
  3. Doctors
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Stakeholder against birth control

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certain religious groups

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3 strategies of those for birth control

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  1. Data focussed
  2. Lifestyle drug
  3. Health benefits
43
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3 strategies of those against birth control

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  1. Greater focus on individual narratives
  2. Common side effects and alternative methods
  3. freedom of religion
44
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Each year, how many Americans sustain milk traumatic brain injuries with no loss of consciousness with an equal number sustaining injuries sufficient to impair consciousness?

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1.5 million

45
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Frames for euthanasia

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  1. Scientific Uncertainty
46
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What does CRISPR stand for

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

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