Chapter 13 Student Quiz 2

. Researchers have found that the designation of otherwise normal conditions as health problems

has changed the experience of the sick role.

has contributed to the social status of healers in society.

is proof of corruption in the health care system.

has not risen in the past decade.

. Arthur Kleinman has done research on how patients talk about their illness, as

the sick role.

the explanatory model.

medicalization of disease.

medical pluralism.

. A reason baby formula caused health problems in developing countries was

the overwhelming use of breastfeeding.

the lack of clean water to mix the formula with.

malnutrition of the mothers.

that women could not read the directions on the bottle.

. Clinical and symbolic processes, social support, and persuasion are applied in

medicalization.

diagnostics.

healing.

folk medicine.

. The clinical therapeutic process involves

a doctor observing a patient's symptoms and prescribing a treatment.

healing rituals.

a patient's social networks, who typically surround the patient.

a patient being given a nonmedicine as if it were a medicine.

. The symbolic therapeutic process involves

a doctor observing a patient's symptoms and prescribing a treatment.

healing rituals.

a patient's social networks, who typically surround the patient.

a patient being given a nonmedicine as if it were a medicine.

. The therapeutic process of persuasion involves

a doctor observing a patient's symptoms and prescribing a treatment.

healing rituals.

a patient's social networks, who typically surround the patient.

a patient being given a nonmedicine as if it were a medicine.

. Ayurvedic medicine is a good example of

the subjectivity of illness.

medicalization.

colonial oppression.

medical pluralism.

. The medical anthropologist who used his/her ethnographic skills to uncover a vast criminal empire in the smuggling of body parts is

Paul Farmer.

Arthur Kleinman.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Kathy Dettwyler.

. The medical anthropologist and physician who set up free clinics in Haiti to treat HIV and AIDS is

Paul Farmer.

Arthur Kleinman.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Kathy Dettwyler.

. An anthropologist interested in sick roles would be most interested in

how ill people express their symptoms to those around them.

how doctors explain disease to their patients.

what therapeutic processes an ill person participates in.

the rate at which a communicable disease is passed from one person to another.

. What is not one of the suggested reasons for increased medicalization in the United States?

Everyone, from pharmaceutical companies to health insurers, is better situated to profit from treating disease than from treating "moral failings."

Medicalization increases the social standing and authority of doctors.

As a result of globalization, there have been an explosion of new infectious diseases in the last few decades.

Given the unparalleled success of the scientific method, Americans are more comfortable seeking scientific solutions to social problems.

. Alcoholism used to be considered a moral failing and is now considered a disease. This shift is a prime example of

medicalization.

medical pluralism.

the subjectivity of illness.

the pliability of the human body.

. The emergent qualities of consciousness expressed through thought, perception, will, and imagination are referred to in the textbook as

intersubjectivity.

the mind.

healing forces.

human spirit.

. Which of the following is an example of a social support therapeutic process?

a mental health professional providing one-on-one therapy to a patient

a community-organized distribution of antibiotics

family members gathering around a sick person to provide him or her with comfort

a large-scale clinical trial designed to make a major social impact

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