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

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

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

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

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

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. What is another term for alternative medicine?

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. Which of the following is a social constructionist theory?

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

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

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

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. Big Pharma has lobbied in support of generic drugs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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