ANP Study Guide Exam 1 2024/2025
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What is health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Not just the absence of disease but
psychological, social and physical well-being
What is medical anthropology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔It studies health, disease,
and illness in human individuals and populations via holistic perspectives
What is sickness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔inclusive term that includes physical,
psychological, and social dimensions of health. different cultures have
different conceptions of sickness
Sickness is split up into two categories- disease and illness - what is
disease? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clinical manifestation of altered physical
function or infection(biological aspect). Anthropologists tend to extend this
definition to include social problems such as malnutrition, poverty, and
social inequality
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, What is illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An individual perception of a medical
problem, as informed by culture("the sufferer's experience")
Illness and disease do not have to exist together- what is illness without
disease? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ex. hypochondriac - someone who believes or
perceives lack of wellbeing but shows no clinical manifestations
What is disease without illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Not believing to be sick
but has clinical manifestations of disease - ie having an infection but not
feeling any symptoms/acknowledging it.
What are the characteristics of medical anthropology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A
holistic approach, cross cultural analysis, objective thinking, many
anthropologists work in international development - there is academic and
there is applied anthropology.
How is medical anthropology traditionally practiced? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the
dichotomy has started to blur recently, but medical anthropology tends to
be either academic or applied - academic involves writing books, teaching,
and suggesting what applied anthropologists should do - who do a lot of
ethnographic fieldwork.
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Exam Questions Marking Scheme New
Update | A+ Rated
What is health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Not just the absence of disease but
psychological, social and physical well-being
What is medical anthropology - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔It studies health, disease,
and illness in human individuals and populations via holistic perspectives
What is sickness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔inclusive term that includes physical,
psychological, and social dimensions of health. different cultures have
different conceptions of sickness
Sickness is split up into two categories- disease and illness - what is
disease? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Clinical manifestation of altered physical
function or infection(biological aspect). Anthropologists tend to extend this
definition to include social problems such as malnutrition, poverty, and
social inequality
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 1
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, What is illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An individual perception of a medical
problem, as informed by culture("the sufferer's experience")
Illness and disease do not have to exist together- what is illness without
disease? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ex. hypochondriac - someone who believes or
perceives lack of wellbeing but shows no clinical manifestations
What is disease without illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Not believing to be sick
but has clinical manifestations of disease - ie having an infection but not
feeling any symptoms/acknowledging it.
What are the characteristics of medical anthropology? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A
holistic approach, cross cultural analysis, objective thinking, many
anthropologists work in international development - there is academic and
there is applied anthropology.
How is medical anthropology traditionally practiced? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the
dichotomy has started to blur recently, but medical anthropology tends to
be either academic or applied - academic involves writing books, teaching,
and suggesting what applied anthropologists should do - who do a lot of
ethnographic fieldwork.
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY 2
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
