Deck 2: Death and Dying in a Rapidly Changing World

Question 1

Today more than half of Americans die __________.

A) at home
B) from cancer
C) in a hospital
D) with family

Answer 1

in a hospital

Question 2

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

A) increased
B) decreased
C) stayed the same
D) declined then increased

Answer 2

increased

Question 3

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

A) only the nuclear family members
B) extended family members
C) pets
D) nursing aids

Answer 3

extended family members

Question 4

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

A) modern medicine, the extended family
B) the extended family, the nuclear family
C) modern medicine, agriculture
D) the nuclear family, modern medicine

Question 5

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

A) sulfa
B) lactose
C) aspirin
D) antihistamine

Question 6

With the rise of modern medicine life expectancy has __________.

A) increased
B) decreased
C) stayed the same
D) increased and then decreased

Question 7

Life expectancy varies by gender and __________.

A) home ownership
B) education
C) race
D) family structure

Question 8

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

A) early middle ages
B) the Renaissance
C) the Enlightenment
D) the 20^th century

Question 9

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

A) remote and imminent death
B) tame death
C) death of the other
D) invisible death

Question 10

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

A) death of the other
B) invisible death
C) tame death
D) death of self

Question 11

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

A) the agricultural model
B) comprehensive care
C) the biomedical model
D) familial practice

Question 12

__________ can be described in three eras.

A) Medicine
B) Industrialization
C) Agriculture
D) Death

Question 13

Durkheim described the sense of confusion and normlessness caused by rapid social change as __________.

A) selfless death
B) biomedicine
C) modernization
D) anomie

Question 14

Today we live in a __________ world.

A) modern
B) postmodern
C) premodern
D) death-blind

Question 15

A natural human reaction to rapid social change is __________.

A) future shock
B) modernism
C) capitalism
D) tame death

Question 16

What is one emphasis of the hospice movement?

A) the patient's right to make decisions about care
B) the doctor's prerogative to make decisions about care
C) the positive aspects of the medicalization of death
D) the role of the extended family in death planning

Question 17

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

A) culturally
B) acculturated
C) socialized
D) modernized

Question 18

Central to the biomedical model of medicine is __________.

A) the nuclear family
B) research
C) the extended family
D) death

Question 19

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

A) isolation
B) technology
C) interdependence
D) hypotheses

Question 20

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

A) AARP
B) ADDA
C) ASA
D) EPEC

Question 21

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

A) family
B) private
C) community
D) taboo

Question 22

What 1910 report facilitated the widespread adoption of modern science and research in medicine?

A) The Flexner Report
B) The Pasture Report
C) The Medicalization Report
D) The EPEC Report

Question 23

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

A) Agriculturalization
B) Industrialization
C) Premodernization
D) Medicalization

Question 24

A central concept to understanding anomie is __________.

A) alienation
B) biomedicine
C) hospice
D) science

Question 25

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

Question 26

Discuss the role of culture in the historical perspectives of death in Western society. Specifically discuss what aspects of the culture around death and dying have changed over time.

Question 27

Using specific examples, explain how technology has changed the way our postmodern society perceives and deals with healthcare and death.

Question 28

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?

Question 29

Discuss the relationships between societal modernization, family structure, and the medicalization of death. Specifically, how have institutional changes altered cultural norms regarding the death and dying experience?