Exam 7: Health, Illness, and Healing

__________ is the poorest country in South America, although it is rich in natural resources.

What is structural suffering, and what is an ethnographic example of it?

What is a "disease of development?" Provide an example and explain its specific cause.

One factor that may explain the success of placebos is the act of the prescription itself.

The phrase "diseases of development" refers to health problems __________.

When medical anthropologists consider how the natural and social environments interact to cause disease, they are following the __________ approach.

The case of Mary, the Samoan girl with diabetes, illustrates the non-fit of two different cultures' explanatory models for illness.

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia are examples of a __________syndrome among White middle-class adolescent girls in the United States.

The area within medical anthropology that seeks to make its knowledge useful to medical practitioners working in health care delivery is __________.

Treating the effects of poverty on health with pills is referred to as __________.

The Ju/wasi of the Kalahari Desert have a healing system that is __________.

In northern Thailand, many people believe that sudden death of men is caused by __________.

In the United States, all states allocate reservations to so-called "recognized tribes."

A country in which there is widespread negative feelings about surgery, including transplant surgery, due to beliefs that the body should remain whole is __________.

What are some of the major issues facing the Sherpa of Nepal today?

A study of the Tsimané people in Bolivia concluded that local people's access to plant resources must be protected.

Ethnographic research in northeastern Brazil reveals that people there consider caesarian delivery to be "primitive."

Robert Trotter's work in discovering the role of lead poisoning in some traditional medicines used by Mexican Americans is an example of critical medical anthropology.

Selective pluralism characterizes the contemporary healing situation of the __________ people of Nepal.

__________ is a culture-specific syndrome in Spain and Portugal and common among Latino people in the United States; it is associated with a stressful incident or situation.