ANTH Medical and Applied Anthropology

Question 1

What branch of anthropology examines how culture, social conditions, and biology interact to shape health, illness, and medical practices?

Accepted Answer

Medical anthropology

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Biological anthropology

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Applied anthropology

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Cognitive anthropology

Question 2

What term refers to an illness as experienced and interpreted by the patient and their community, as opposed to the biomedical diagnosis?

Accepted Answer

Illness

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Disease

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Sickness

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Affliction

Question 3

Which concept in medical anthropology refers to culturally specific explanations for why illness occurs and how it should be treated?

Accepted Answer

Explanatory model

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Biomedical model

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Humoral theory

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Germ theory

Question 4

What is 'ethnomedical' knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Traditional healing knowledge and practices specific to a particular cultural group

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Modern biomedical knowledge applied cross-culturally

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Scientific knowledge about ethnic health disparities

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Pharmaceutical knowledge derived from indigenous plants

Question 5

Applied anthropology that specifically works with communities to improve health outcomes and health care delivery is known as:

Accepted Answer

Medical anthropology in practice

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Ethnopharmacology

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Clinical ecology

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Health sociology

Question 6

Which term describes the phenomenon whereby social and cultural factors produce systematic differences in health outcomes between population groups?

Accepted Answer

Health disparities

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Epidemiological transition

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Sickness behavior

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Structural violence