Chapter 14 Practice Quizzes

. Diseases like SARS and COVID-19 were examples of _______.

. Which of the following terms describes the situation when a gender or "race" is blocked from becoming health professionals?

. Which of the following would NOT be considered a form of alternative medicine?

. Which term does Ivan Illich use to refer to the situation when political conditions that "render a society unhealthy" are hidden or obscured?

. Who came up with the first medical sociology term—the concept of the sick role?

. What is another term for alternative medicine?

. Which of the following is a social constructionist theory?

. Which sociological factor could affect the "social course" of a disease?

. Biomedicine has been criticized for looking at health from a _________ perspective that attributes medical conditions to single factors treatable with single remedies.

. Elizabeth Steinhauer was the first Indigenous woman to be licensed as a doctor in Canada in_____.

. Big Pharma has lobbied in support of generic drugs.

. From a social determinist perspective obesity is an individual problem, not a societal issue.

. Medical sociology is heavily influenced by policy and critical sociology.

. In its research on Canadians with disabilities, Statistics Canada recognizes five main types of disability.

. A medical brealkthrough of the nineteenth century was the realization that every disease has a natural course and lifespan.

. People have disabilities. It is society that constructs impairments as a social category.

. E.L. Koos introduced the concept of the "sick role."

. Early Europeans attributed some disabilities (especially those involving epileptic seizures) to demon possessions or witchcraft.

. As older doctors retire, the medical profession becomes more feminized.

. A knowledge of sociology is now required to pass the latest (2015) version of the Medical College Admission Test.

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