Chapter 9

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

Non-living

Question 2

Bioaccumulation

Answer 2

Accumulation of toxic substances in progressively higher concentrations from the bottom to the top of a food chain

Question 3

Biomagnification

Answer 3

An increase in the concentration of a toxic substance from the bottom to the top of a food chain

Question 4

Biotic

Answer 4

Living; biological

Question 5

Defensive Research

Answer 5

Designed and conducted by individuals outside the affected community without consulting member of the community about their interests or concerns

Question 6

Disease

Answer 6

Biomedical condition characterized by a harmful biological irregularity in an organism

Question 7

Epidemiology

Answer 7

The study of causes, occurence, spread, management, and prevention of infectious disease

Question 8

Disease

Answer 8

A biomedical condition characterized by a harmful biological irregularity in an organism

Question 9

Etiology

Answer 9

The study of the causes of a disease and/ or an illness

Question 10

Folk Illness

Answer 10

Culture-bound illness; set of symptoms that are grouped together under a single label only within a particular culture

Question 11

Health

Answer 11

Described a person’s general social, psychological, and physical condition

Question 12

Illness

Answer 12

Culturally identified state of general physical and.or mental discomfort

Question 13

Managed Care

Answer 13

Tied to the market-based delivery of medicine, particularly in the US

Question 14

Medical Anthropology

Answer 14

Study of interactions between culture and health. Focusses on issues of well-being, health, illness, and disease as they are situated in thier wider cultural context

Question 15

Placebo Effect

Answer 15

Effect produced in response to individual’s belief that a treatment will have a desired effect, despite evidence that the treatment has no medicinal properties

Question 16

Positive Research

Answer 16

Research that is designed with fair consideration of the interests and concerns of members of the affected community and conducted with consideration of cultural contexts within the community

Question 17

Realized Niche

Answer 17

The Habitable world that a group of people is forced to utilize and to which becomes highly adapted

Question 18

Shaman

Answer 18

A person who’s an expert on cultural definitions and treatments of medical as well as spiritual issues

Question 19

Traditional Knowledge

Answer 19

Knowledge that’s culturally held and passed on from generations to generation

Question 20

Well-Being

Answer 20

A state of general physical and mental comfort and good health; a lack of illness

Question 21

Western Biomedical Approach of medical Anthropology

Answer 21

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Question 22

Folk Cures

Answer 22

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