Chapter 13 Student Quiz 1

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. __________ is the culturally defined agreement between patients and family members to acknowledge that the patient is legitimately sick.

Illness correct incorrect

The sick role correct incorrect

Disease correct incorrect

Social contract correct incorrect

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. __________ is the purely physiological condition of suffering.

Disease correct incorrect

Illness correct incorrect

The sick role correct incorrect

Medicalization correct incorrect

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. __________ is the experience of physical suffering.

Disease correct incorrect

Illness correct incorrect

The sick role correct incorrect

Medicalization correct incorrect

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. How people understand and experience their condition on a personal level is

medicalization. correct incorrect

the sick role. correct incorrect

medical pluralism. correct incorrect

the subjectivity of illness. correct incorrect

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. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, American barbers were often also

nutritionists. correct incorrect

doctors. correct incorrect

morticians. correct incorrect

murderers. correct incorrect

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. Medical knowledge is

stable. correct incorrect

narrow. correct incorrect

constantly changing. correct incorrect

not scientifically proven. correct incorrect

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. The shift from seeing alcoholism as a sin to a disease is an example of

geneticism. correct incorrect

medical pluralism. correct incorrect

the subjectivity of illness. correct incorrect

medicalization. correct incorrect

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. The placebo effect works partially through

medicalization. correct incorrect

the subjectivity of illness. correct incorrect

the sick role. correct incorrect

persuasion. correct incorrect

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. The study of the intersections of biological, psychological, and cultural processes is known as

medical anthropology. correct incorrect

sociobiology. correct incorrect

biocultural anthropology. correct incorrect

functionalist anthropology. correct incorrect

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. Who determines if a person has a disease?

a physician correct incorrect

the patient correct incorrect

both the patient and the physician correct incorrect

insurance companies correct incorrect

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. Koro, the belief that one's genitalia or nipples are shrinking, is an example of

a culture-bound syndrome. correct incorrect

a gender specific syndrome. correct incorrect

the psychological consequences of capitalism. correct incorrect

imitative magic. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not a factor in the path to mediumship in Candomblé?

wellness correct incorrect

biology correct incorrect

psychology correct incorrect

culture correct incorrect

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. Which of the following would be least interesting to a medical anthropologist?

the delivery mechanisms of a new HIV/AIDS treatment correct incorrect

the role of insurance companies in defining disease correct incorrect

the international development response to a typhoid outbreak correct incorrect

a new industrial agriculture project designed in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund correct incorrect

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. In Mali, people are often not bothered when they express the symptoms of schistosomiasis because

infection rates are so high it is not locally recognized as illness. correct incorrect

people do not have the time to "be sick." correct incorrect

they do not have enough knowledge to differentiate between being sick and being well. correct incorrect

there is no available treatment, so there is no reason to be concerned with symptoms. correct incorrect

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. Among the Nigerum people of Papua New Guinea, what is a person's expected sick role?

refusing to acknowledge the severity of symptoms to have the community cajole you into seeking treatment correct incorrect

isolating yourself in your home and refusing community visitors correct incorrect

demonstrating the severity of your symptoms as a call to action for the whole community correct incorrect

sitting with all other unwell members of the community, helping to take care of one another correct incorrect