Question 1

The belief that specific persons have the ability to directly communicate with thsupernatural through a trance or possession experience is called:

Accepted Answer

A)   witchcraft
B)   sorcery
C)   susto
D)   shamanism D

Question 2

Give at least four uses of coca in the Andes.

Accepted Answer

Coca is used as a medium of communication and social interactionsincluding as a social contract in marriages, in agricultural rituals, and for divinationit provides an array of vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial nutrients; it serves aa form of cultural identity; it relieves soroche, high altitude stress; it suppressehunger, thirst, and cold; it relieves weariness and pain; and it is used to treat number of illnesses

Question 3

If practitioners approach the study of disease as one of biology, most diseases cabe healed.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 4

Using the example of liquichado from the Andes, discuss the challenges thapatients face when choosing whether to seek biomedical or ethnomedical treatments.

Accepted Answer

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Question 5

What is meant by the term "culturalist approach" to illness?

Accepted Answer

A)   an approach that ascribes disease and illness to beliefs, values, and attitudes.
B)   an approach that is sensitive to the cultural needs of the people concerned
C)   an approach in which healers and practitioners are all community members
D)   an approach that takes into account the cultural and social illnesses only

Question 6

Shamans are healers.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In the mid-1970s Rubin and Comitas found what percentage of the rural Jamaicapopulation using some form of marijuana (ganja)?

Accepted Answer

A)   30%-40%
B)   70%-80%
C)   60%-70%
D)   20%-30%

Question 8

In the period 1999-2002, approximately what percentage of Latin Americans waclassified as "indigent," or desperately poor?

Accepted Answer

A)   90%
B)   75%
C)   60%
D)   50%

Question 9

When there is loss of appetite, listlessness, lack of interest, apathy, nauseairritability, weakness and withdrawal, accompanied by high fever, severe diarrhea, and constant crying in children, it is diagnosed usually as:

Accepted Answer

A)   susto
B)   mal de ojo
C)   nervios
D)   life's lesions

Question 10

Describe how a system of religious pluralism, biomedicine, and ethnomedicinworks to promote better health.

Accepted Answer

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Question 11

In Haiti, the high rates of HIV virus/AIDS cases is attributable to:

Accepted Answer

A)   high rates of male prostitution
B)   male-to-male homosexual transmission
C)   heterosexual transmission
D)   female-to-female homosexual transmission

Question 12

The greatest causes of illness and disease in Latin America are:

Accepted Answer

A)   poverty and socio-economic inequality
B)   poverty and ethnomedical practices
C)   poverty and lack of socio-political incentives
D)   unsanitary cultural and social practices

Question 13

Migration in Brazil has had much to do with the increasing rates of HIV.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Coca consumption is a key element of Andean health.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What are the distinctions between ethnomedicine and biomedicine?

Accepted Answer

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Question 16

Children are far more susceptible to susto than adults.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Ayahuasca ceremonies usually take place at first light in the morning.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

What is critical medical anthropology?

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

What is meant by "life's lesions"?

Accepted Answer

A)   a series of illnesses suffered by women in Latin America
B)   a series of folk illnesses caused by culture
C)   adversity and unresolved contradictions that lead to psychosomatic illness
D)   differential allocation of food and nutrition within the family

Question 20

Nervios is a folk illness in Latin America.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Exam 8: Striving for Health and Coping with Illness

The belief that specific persons have the ability to directly communicate with thsupernatural through a trance or possession experience is called:

Give at least four uses of coca in the Andes.

If practitioners approach the study of disease as one of biology, most diseases cabe healed.

Using the example of liquichado from the Andes, discuss the challenges thapatients face when choosing whether to seek biomedical or ethnomedical treatments.

What is meant by the term "culturalist approach" to illness?

Shamans are healers.

In the mid-1970s Rubin and Comitas found what percentage of the rural Jamaicapopulation using some form of marijuana (ganja) ?

In the period 1999-2002, approximately what percentage of Latin Americans waclassified as "indigent," or desperately poor?

When there is loss of appetite, listlessness, lack of interest, apathy, nauseairritability, weakness and withdrawal, accompanied by high fever, severe diarrhea, and constant crying in children, it is diagnosed usually as:

Describe how a system of religious pluralism, biomedicine, and ethnomedicinworks to promote better health.

In Haiti, the high rates of HIV virus/AIDS cases is attributable to:

The greatest causes of illness and disease in Latin America are:

Migration in Brazil has had much to do with the increasing rates of HIV.

Coca consumption is a key element of Andean health.

What are the distinctions between ethnomedicine and biomedicine?

Children are far more susceptible to susto than adults.

Ayahuasca ceremonies usually take place at first light in the morning.

What is critical medical anthropology?

What is meant by "life's lesions"?

Nervios is a folk illness in Latin America.