Exam 14: Health and Illness

________ is a scientific endeavor that seeks to identify and map the genes that make up human DNA.

Paolo broke a finger playing soccer and was seen by a medical practitioner soon after the accident.How would his ailment be classified?

What does one call the study of controversial,moral,or ethical issues related to scientific and medical advancements?

Epidemiologists are currently studying the role of ________ in the spread of diseases globally.

People with higher socioeconomic status can expect to live longer lives and have greater physical well-being than those in lower socioeconomic status groups.What factors contribute to these unequal health outcomes?

Obesity is now often treated with surgery.Previously,weight loss was not usually considered a medical problem that could be addressed through surgery.This is evidence of

How does the story of Lia Lee illustrate the problem of health-care providers who have not developed cultural competence?

Genetic testing in utero can inform parents of possible genetic mutations in the embryo.There are ethical concerns regarding this type of genetic testing because some assert that the selection of only healthy babies is a form of

What is the study of the social aspects of diseases?

The American Medical Association

Epidemiologists predict that rates of certain diseases or viruses may dramatically increase when vector organisms enter new ecosystems due to global climate change.Which of the following have epidemiologists linked to climate change?

How have pharmaceutical advertisements changed the patient-doctor relationship?

________ is a group of medical treatments,practices,and products that includes practices like acupuncture,homeopathy,hypnosis,and meditation as well as traditional healers like shamans and movement therapies like Pilates.

Kendra is a lower-class American.She lives in public housing,did not finish high school,experiences lapses in employment,and has a hard time making financial ends meet.Kendra is twice as likely as people who are not living in poverty to

A reality television program called The Swan (2004-2005)aimed to give women extreme makeovers.This was done by radically changing their appearance in part through plastic surgery.Of what is this an example?

Since HIV/AIDS was first identified in the early 1980s,approximately ________ people have died from having contracted the virus.

Death and illness in a population are bad for the productivity of the system and are destabilizing forces.Which theory takes this approach to medicine?

________ diseases come on suddenly and are often contagious.

Which sociological perspective would pay close attention to how stigma is related to disease?

What is it called when the incidence of a particular infectious disease is drastically larger than first estimated?