ANTH Medical and Applied Anthropology 3

Question 1

What is 'global health anthropology' primarily concerned with?

Accepted Answer

How international health programs interact with local cultures and health systems

Answer

Global health anthropology examines how international health interventions interact with local cultural practices, power structures, and health systems.

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

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

Answer

Medicalization describes how conditions previously not considered medical (like childbirth or aging) become reframed as medical problems requiring professional intervention.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Medical pluralism

Answer

Medical pluralism refers to the coexistence of multiple healing systems — biomedical, traditional, and alternative — within a single society.

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?

Accepted Answer

Epilepsy

Answer

Fadiman's book documents how a Hmong family and American doctors clashed over the treatment of a child with epilepsy, which the Hmong understood as spiritual possession.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Quickly gather cultural data to inform health programs and policies

Answer

Rapid ethnographic assessment uses streamlined qualitative methods to collect timely cultural information for program planning and policy decisions.

ANTH (Anthropology) Practice Test

ANTH (Anthropology) Practice Test

ANTH Medical and Applied Anthropology 3