ANTH Medical and Applied Anthropology 3

Question 1

What is 'global health anthropology' primarily concerned with?

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How international health programs interact with local cultures and health systems

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Comparing disease rates between countries using statistical methods

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Developing new biomedical technologies for developing nations

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Administering vaccines and medications in low-income countries

Question 2

The concept of 'medicalization' in medical anthropology refers to:

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The process by which non-medical problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions

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The adoption of Western medicine by traditional societies

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The use of medication to replace traditional healing

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The expansion of health insurance to cover more conditions

Question 3

Which term describes the knowledge, skills, and tools that health workers use to diagnose and treat patients within a particular cultural context?

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Medical pluralism

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Biomedical hegemony

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Clinical ethnography

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Therapeutic landscape

Question 4

Anne Fadiman's book 'The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down' illustrates conflicts between biomedical and traditional Hmong beliefs about which condition?

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Epilepsy

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Tuberculosis

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Schizophrenia

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Diabetes

Question 5

In applied anthropology, 'rapid ethnographic assessment' is used primarily to:

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Quickly gather cultural data to inform health programs and policies

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Conduct long-term ethnographic fieldwork in crisis situations

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Train community health workers in ethnographic methods

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Evaluate the effectiveness of completed health interventions

Question 6

What anthropological approach examines how political and economic systems create conditions that make certain groups more vulnerable to illness and poor health?

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Critical medical anthropology

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Interpretive medical anthropology

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Biocultural anthropology

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Cognitive medical anthropology