ANTH 411 Exam 2
medical anthropology - correct answer ✔rests on the belief that medicine
and illness are also impacted by culture
applied anthropology - correct answer ✔The use of anthropological
knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client.
critical medical anthropology - correct answer ✔an approach to the study of
health and illness that analyzes the impact of inequality and stratification
within systems of power on individual and group health outcomes
Magda A (her life story and why we read about it) - correct answer ✔life and
violence in south africa
biocultural approach - correct answer ✔considers the cultural,
environmental, and biological aspects of health issues and how these interact
within and across populations. Adaptive and maladaptive traits.
health - correct answer ✔absence of disease. Presence of physical, mental,
and social well being
disease - correct answer ✔medical condition. definable and identifiable. can
be observed, measured. treatable by health professional.
illness - correct answer ✔patient's experience of sickness. How one feels,
thinks, talks about it, experiences it. Culturally defined understanding of
disease. Ex: culture bound syndrome, somatic
, ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔cultural explanations for the underlying
causes of health issues
biomedicine - correct answer ✔- "western medicine". apply principles of
biology/natural sciences to diagnosing and treating disease. Illnessses are a
result of identifiable agents.
- past assumptions of biomedicine: tends to separate mind and body.
knowledge of biomedicine is based on objective fact. biomedicine is
universally applicable.
ethnomedicine - correct answer ✔- comparative study of cultural ideas about
wellness, illness, and healthy. Medicinal practices and beliefs of a particular
group of people. Local systems of health and healing.
Naturalistic ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔views disease as the result of
natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, or an upset in the balance of the
basic body elements.
Personalistic ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔views disease as the result of
the actions of human or supernatural beings
culture bound syndromes - correct answer ✔disorders found only in
particular cultures
somatization - correct answer ✔the expression of psychological distress
through physical symptoms
placebo effect - correct answer ✔experimental results caused by
expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an
inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.
medical anthropology - correct answer ✔rests on the belief that medicine
and illness are also impacted by culture
applied anthropology - correct answer ✔The use of anthropological
knowledge and methods to solve practical problems, often for a specific client.
critical medical anthropology - correct answer ✔an approach to the study of
health and illness that analyzes the impact of inequality and stratification
within systems of power on individual and group health outcomes
Magda A (her life story and why we read about it) - correct answer ✔life and
violence in south africa
biocultural approach - correct answer ✔considers the cultural,
environmental, and biological aspects of health issues and how these interact
within and across populations. Adaptive and maladaptive traits.
health - correct answer ✔absence of disease. Presence of physical, mental,
and social well being
disease - correct answer ✔medical condition. definable and identifiable. can
be observed, measured. treatable by health professional.
illness - correct answer ✔patient's experience of sickness. How one feels,
thinks, talks about it, experiences it. Culturally defined understanding of
disease. Ex: culture bound syndrome, somatic
, ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔cultural explanations for the underlying
causes of health issues
biomedicine - correct answer ✔- "western medicine". apply principles of
biology/natural sciences to diagnosing and treating disease. Illnessses are a
result of identifiable agents.
- past assumptions of biomedicine: tends to separate mind and body.
knowledge of biomedicine is based on objective fact. biomedicine is
universally applicable.
ethnomedicine - correct answer ✔- comparative study of cultural ideas about
wellness, illness, and healthy. Medicinal practices and beliefs of a particular
group of people. Local systems of health and healing.
Naturalistic ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔views disease as the result of
natural forces such as cold, heat, winds, or an upset in the balance of the
basic body elements.
Personalistic ethno-etiology - correct answer ✔views disease as the result of
the actions of human or supernatural beings
culture bound syndromes - correct answer ✔disorders found only in
particular cultures
somatization - correct answer ✔the expression of psychological distress
through physical symptoms
placebo effect - correct answer ✔experimental results caused by
expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an
inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.
