Exam 2: Death and Dying in a Rapidly Changing World

With the rise of modern medicine life expectancy has __________.

In the tame death perspective, death is a __________ event.

What was the world's first antibiotic drug released in 1935?

Given what you've learned in the chapter about modernization and medicalization, discuss the changing role of religion in the process of death and dying. In what ways do religion and the biomedical model of medicine conflict and complement each other?

In agricultural societies it is common for families to live with __________.

__________ is the process by which a society uses science and technology to extract raw materials and convert them to finished products.

What is the most widely accepted approach to health care in Western medicine?

Over time the number of people who die in an institutional setting has __________.

A natural human reaction to rapid social change is __________.

The rise of __________ and __________ have contributed to more deaths occurring at hospitals than at home.

__________ can be described in three eras.

The perception of tame death was prevalent in which historical time period?

The scientific principle of __________ makes the study of health issues related to death in the real world difficult.

Using a scientific example, explain the role capitalism plays in the contemporary healthcare industry.

One of the primary goals of this program is to enhance physician competency in end-of-life care.

Today more than half of Americans die __________.

Various professionals in the healthcare and death systems are __________ differently.

In the __________ perspective, death itself becomes invisible in day-to-day life.

Death is considered a family affair in the __________ perspective of death.

Life expectancy varies by gender and __________.