Ch. 16 Health and Illness

Question 1

health

Answer 1

the absence of disease and infirmity, as well as the presence of physical, mental and social well-being

Question 2

disease

Answer 2

a discrete natural entity that can be clinically identified and treated by a health professional

Question 3

illness

Answer 3

the individual patient’s experience of sickness

Question 4

ethnomedicine

Answer 4

local systems of health and healing rooted in culturally specific norms and values

Question 5

ethnopharmacology

Answer 5

the documentation and description of the local use of natural substances in healing remedies and practices

Question 6

biomedicine

Answer 6

a practice, often associated with Western medicine, that seeks to apply the principles of biology and the natural sciences to the practice of diagnosing disease and promoting healing

Question 7

human microbiome

Answer 7

the complete collection of microorganisms in the human body’s ecosystem

Question 8

health transition

Answer 8

the significant improvements in human health made over the course of the twentieth century that were not, however, distributed evenly across the world’s population

Question 9

critical medical anthropology

Answer 9

an approach to the study of health and illness that analyzes the impact of inequality and stratification within systems of power on individual and group health outcomes

Question 10

medical migration

Answer 10

the movement of diseases, medical treatments, and entire healthcare systems, as well as those seeking medical care , across national borders

Question 11

medical pluralism

Answer 11

the intersection of multiple cultural approaches to healing

Question 12

illness narrative

Answer 12

the personal stories that people tell to explain their illness