Chapter 3 (cultural Considerations)

Question 1

Ethnomedicine

Answer 1

Folk medicine or traditional medics. A focus with medical anthropology that examines the ways in which people in different cultures conceptualize health and illness.

Question 2

Traditional healers

Answer 2

Priests, shamans, bone setters, herbalist, curaneros, and midwives.

Question 3

Ethnopharmacology

Answer 3

A subdivision of ethnomedicine and focuses on the use of herbs, powders, teas, and animal products as healers.

Question 4

Pharmacogenetics

Answer 4

Study of the different genes that determine drug behavior in the human body.

Question 5

Transcultural Nursing

Answer 5

Madeleine leninger is the founder of providing transcultural care

Question 6

Assimilation

Answer 6

When a minority group changes its ways to blend with a more dominant group.

Question 7

Complementary health therapists

Answer 7

Combine traditional and conventional western health practices without using assumptions

Question 8

Alternative health therapists

Answer 8

Higher dominant practices Borrowing less dominant practices

Question 9

Tiger and DAvidhizar Transcultural Assessment model. 6 steps

Answer 9

1. Communication
2. Space
3. Social organization
4. Time
5. Environmental control
6. Biological variation

Question 10

Polymorphism

Answer 10

DNA variants that occur within a specific population at a frequency greater than 1%