Exam 16: Health, Illness, and the Body

During the European conquest of North America, entire populations suffered due to the diseases brought to the continent by the conquering armies. In a very real sense, this early form of "globalization" was a type of medical migration. How does medical migration today, as discussed in the text, differ from this?

How does the anthropological understanding of sickness differ from illness or disease?

What is meant by a "health transition?"

Anthropologists have recognized that Western biomedicine draws heavily on:

From the anthropological perspective, an individual patient's experience of sickness is considered to be what?

Overall human life expectancy increased from 31 years in 1900 to what in 2015?

Dolly, a stay-at-home mother, makes her children breakfast every morning. However, when she came down with the flu, her kids stepped in to make breakfast for her. For Dolly, staying in bed is an example of what?

What is one important reason that medical anthropology has grown significantly since the 1980s?

What do scientists now think the purpose of the human microbiome might be?