Exam 7: Health, Illness, and Healing

The ecological/epidemiological approach in medical anthropology involves __________.

Historical trauma as a result of European colonialism is closely associated with substance abuse among indigenous peoples of North America.

According to critical medical anthropologists, one significant feature of the training of Western biomedical healers is called cognitive retrogression.

A prominent value in Japan is gotai, or the belief that a person's body should never be cut into.

Schistosomiasis, obesity, and childhood obesity are examples of a disease of __________.

XMDRTB is an example of __________.

An example of a traditional practice to prevent health problems is __________.

Some forms of alternative healing include the use of radon.

In the country of __________, as a whole, nearly one-third of the population has inadequate access to water.

An increasingly common culture-specific syndrome among Japanese male adolescents is __________.

What is the goal of applied medical anthropology and what is one example of it?

Medical anthropologists study healing practices only in non-Western cultures.

An increasing prevalence of the disease __________ is attributed to the construction of high dams and irrigation in many parts of the world.

Smallpox, typhus fever, and measles were a prominent cause of death of __________during early contact with European colonizers.

The "retired husband syndrome" affects women in the country of __________.

Surgery, or treating an illness through cutting into the body, is a universally valued approach to healing in all cultures.

What are the primary criteria for becoming a healer? Compare what you know about shamans/shamankas with Western biomedical healers in terms of the criteria.

Forced migration that causes mental and physical stress is an example of structural suffering.

To what does the term medicalization refer and provide an example of it.

The use of anthropological research to help improve health care delivery is __________.