ARGUMENT188 =August Rush=小组第5次作业 by wisle

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT188 - A new report suggests that men and women experience pain very differently from one another, and that doctors should consider these differences when prescribing pain medications. When researchers administered the same dosage of kappa opioids-a painkiller-to 28 men and 20 women who were having their wisdom teeth extracted, the women reported feeling much less pain than the men, and the easing of pain lasted considerably longer in women. This research suggests that kappa opioids should be prescribed for women whenever pain medication is required, whereas men should be given other kinds of pain medication. In addition, researchers should reevaluate the effects of all medications on men versus women.
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TIME: 00:40:00

DATE: 2009-7-27 下午 10:54:24


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The arguer build a well-grounded logical link between a new research and the two conclusions-kappa opioids (K) should be prescribe for women, but not for men and researchers should reevaluate all the medications effects for men and women-by a hypothesis men and women have different pain experience. It turns out that, if look critically, feeble buttresses weaken the conclusions.

First, at the end of the line of this reasoning, a major suspicion of the hypothesis has blocked access to the conclusion all the medications effects should be reevaluated. By insufficient evidences is it difficult to convince this assertion. It is reasonable to question the reevaluation is not necessary. It is an unfeasible research with respect to tens or twenties painkillers in the market. If researchers want to know their effects on male and female, they have to test each medicine under each circumstance, since each painkiller maybe has different effects in different condition, such as various kinds of operations on leg, arm and so on. Another point worth pondering is that even if researchers have done this jobs at expense of long time and a number of money, patients will still choose the one what they previously used, since they concern the medicine they used before is already competent for their demand. Therefore, this assertion is indefensible.

Next, by looking back to the reasoning line, we focus on the analysis of another conclusion that doctor should prescribe K to women whenever pain medication is required, but other to men. Possibly correct though it remains to be, we can boldly speculate that extracting wisdom teeth can not mean that K is effective for the pain as other reason such as arm operation. Even if it works well on other pains, without illustrations on other painkillers' effects, it is still doubtful that there is one painkiller, called A, is more effective on the extracting wisdom teeth. Thus the conclusion for women is crippling, unless further explanation can be offered.

The same to men, the conclusion for men, it is also unfounded. Even though K is less effective for men than women, it can not mean K is less effective that other painkillers. Instead, perhaps, K is the most effective painkiller for men. Moreover, likewise, the similarity for women, the arguer can not convince that extracting wisdom teeth can represent any other circumstance.

Simply put, the evidences cited in this argument are not competent for these two conclusions. After all, incorrect conclusion will lead the public suffer an unexpected loss rather than a big cake.

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