Deck 49: A Slow, Toxic Decline: Dialysis Patients, Technological Failure, and the Unfulfilled Promise of Health in America

Question 1

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, ______ patients were framed as a metaphor for health vulnerabilities.

A) Alzheimer's
B) mental illness
C) cancer
D) dialysis

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Dialysis patients require all of the following except ______.

A) orange juice
B) clean water
C) running electricity
D) medical staff

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The story of dialysis patients during Hurricane Katrina illustrates the problem of ______ dependence.

A) drug
B) dual-parent
C) alcohol
D) technology-related

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Louisiana's health problems such as low immunization rates and high rates of stroke have ______ origins.

A) social
B) electrical
C) individual
D) mortal

Question 5

A stretch of states across the American Southeast associated with high rates of stroke, an array of hypertension-related disorders, is known as the ______.

A) stroke belt
B) diabetes burden
C) bible corridor
D) driftless area

Question 6

In the Southeast, the most common cause of kidney failure is ______.

A) smoking
B) genetic predisposition
C) hypertension
D) high-fat diets

Question 7

The rate of kidney failure is ______ times higher for Blacks than Whites.

A) two
B) three to four
C) five
D) six to seven

Question 8

Which term was frequently used by news outlets to describe conditions in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina?

A) coordinated
B) technological
C) primitive
D) broad

Question 9

Historian Steven Peitzman notes that going on dialysis is nearly as familiar a part of African American life in the cities as ______.

A) visiting a doctor
B) eating dinner
C) attending school
D) going to church

Question 10

When did access to dialysis become an entitlement through federal law?

A) 1960
B) 1972
C) 1987
D) 1992

Question 11

Identify three ailments that were receiving widespread public attention in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina struck.

Question 12

Discuss the correlation between end-stage renal disease (ESRD), diabetes, and being Black.

Question 13

What happens to dialysis patients who do not have access to regular dialysis treatment?

Question 14

When did hemodialysis become an entitlement through federal law?

Question 15

Summarize the sociological lessons revealed by the story of the dialysis patients.