Classics 2902 Test 1 | UPDATED Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Question:
3 approaches to ancient medicine
Answer:
1. causation (seek the single thing that's causing the disease)
2. Reduction (separate pathogen from patient - does not acknowledge patient)
3. Anthropological (relationship between disease, patient and healer) - best
Question:
Modern health
Answer:
fitting into a statistic
Question:
2 spheres of health
Answer:
personal (how an individual perceives their own status/health) and Communal (how
others perceive the health/status of an individual)
Question:
Mesopotamian view
Answer:
no separation between natural and supernatural (physical and spirit are one)
Question:
mesopotamian hierarchy
Answer:
Gods > Spirits > Humans
Question:
mesopotamian symptoms
Answer:
, message from gods/spirits
Question:
Egyptian time
Answer:
cyclical - treatments should be tried again later because it might work
Question:
Egyptian health
Answer:
A manifestation of one's relationship with the human and divine communities
Question:
Common Egyptian Problems
Answer:
pregnancy, gynaecology, intestinal worms, skin ailments, dentistry, bites by dogs and
humans, and ophthalmology
Question:
Egyptian medical texts
Answer:
11 papyri (ones with incantations dismissed until 20th c. AD)
Question:
Difference between Egyptian and Greco-Roman diagnosis
Answer:
Egyptians needed to physically examine to diagnose
Question:
Restoring health in egypt
Answer:
plan given by healer, patient must be obedient and maintain proper relationships and if
Gods accept the change then healing occurs, if not try something else (maybe try again
Question:
3 approaches to ancient medicine
Answer:
1. causation (seek the single thing that's causing the disease)
2. Reduction (separate pathogen from patient - does not acknowledge patient)
3. Anthropological (relationship between disease, patient and healer) - best
Question:
Modern health
Answer:
fitting into a statistic
Question:
2 spheres of health
Answer:
personal (how an individual perceives their own status/health) and Communal (how
others perceive the health/status of an individual)
Question:
Mesopotamian view
Answer:
no separation between natural and supernatural (physical and spirit are one)
Question:
mesopotamian hierarchy
Answer:
Gods > Spirits > Humans
Question:
mesopotamian symptoms
Answer:
, message from gods/spirits
Question:
Egyptian time
Answer:
cyclical - treatments should be tried again later because it might work
Question:
Egyptian health
Answer:
A manifestation of one's relationship with the human and divine communities
Question:
Common Egyptian Problems
Answer:
pregnancy, gynaecology, intestinal worms, skin ailments, dentistry, bites by dogs and
humans, and ophthalmology
Question:
Egyptian medical texts
Answer:
11 papyri (ones with incantations dismissed until 20th c. AD)
Question:
Difference between Egyptian and Greco-Roman diagnosis
Answer:
Egyptians needed to physically examine to diagnose
Question:
Restoring health in egypt
Answer:
plan given by healer, patient must be obedient and maintain proper relationships and if
Gods accept the change then healing occurs, if not try something else (maybe try again
