Wiley Chapter 1

Question 1

Anthropology

Answer 1

A discipline that investigates the nature and causes of human variation and those aspects of life that are common to all of humanity

Question 2

Biocultural perspective

Answer 2

A perspective that considers the social, ecological, and biological aspects of health issues and, importantly, how these interact within and cross populations and over evolutionary time

Question 3

Biomedicine

Answer 3

Form of medicine that developed out of the scientific tradition in 18th century Europe. It views diseases having a unique biological cause within the body.

Question 4

Cultural relativism

Answer 4

The evaluation of other cultures must not be in relation to another that is judged superior (which had often been western civilization), but rather cultures must be understood or “made sense of “on their own terms

Question 5

Culture

Answer 5

The beliefs, values, practices, and traditions of behavior of a group

Question 6

Emic

Answer 6

The perspective of members of a society

Question 7

Ethnographic fieldwork

Answer 7

Anthropological research that usually involves long-term residence in a community, speaking a local language, and participating in daily life as a member of that community

Question 8

Ethnomedicine

Answer 8

Healing traditions of a given culture

Question 9

Etic

Answer 9

The perspective on a society from the view of an outsider

Question 10

International health

Answer 10

Health across global populations

Question 11

Medical anthropology

Answer 11

The study of health related issues from an anthropological perspective