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1. Critical medical anthropology uses political-economic theory to make more visible how political, economic, and social factors lead to better or worse outcomes for particular groups of people. This can be summarized as: who benefits, and who suffers?
True
False
2. In Fadiman, both the US government and the USSR violated the Geneva accords of 1954 and 1961-1962 that declared Laos to be neutral.
True
False
3. The Hewletts document how Ebola origin stories in central Africa were:
Inferior to biomedical models
Drawn from political and economic issues
Often focused on mistrust of outsiders, stemming from histories of colonial exploitation
A and B
B and C
4. What was a main social factor that impacted the spread and intensity of the 2014 Ebola crisis?
Superstitious beliefs held by West Africans
Migration of Central American children across the Southern US border with Mexico.
Lack of healthcare systems, staff, and stuff (supplies) in the communities affected.
Airborne transmission of Ebola
5. Which of the following is an example of structural violence?
Diet cultures and trends
The switch from hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture systems
Downstream pollution in indigenous reservation areas from nearby chemical industrial plants
Public transportation systems
6. (Choose all that apply) As argued by Farmer, the "race and place" analysis characteristic of US public health experts:
Yields great insights on tuberculosis in the US.
Is largely useless.
Meets the criteria (dynamic, systematic, and critical) he sets for helpful infectious disease models
Is insufficient to examine the effects of poverty.
7. What were some key factors of the 2014 Ebola outbreak as described in the 4 NPR pieces and the video interview with Paul Farmer.
Suffering continued after exposure, due to fear and social ostracization of survivors.
Ebola is likely to evolve into an airborne illness like the flu.
Human rights and public health measures are inherently in conflict; there is no way to have an ethical quarantine.
State violence was used in attempt to contain the threat of disease.
Ebola transmission involves significant mutation of its genome, making it difficult for scientists to predict how it will evolve.
The fact that many communities affected were urbanized, dense, and traveling resulted in the worst Ebola outbreak in history.
8. The use of political economic theory in medical anthropology is to discover answers to these 2 questions: What are the political benefits? What are the economic costs?
True
False
9. Which of the following is an aspect encompassed within political-economic theory?
Cost-benefit analysis of personal choices and actions
Understanding the effects of the distribution of wealth and resources
Conducting ethical interviews and surveys with underrepresented groups
10. What is meant by the term "structural violence," as popularized by physician anthropologist Paul Farmer?
A counter-theory that challenges cultural elements as health problems
A theory that assumes cultural elements are health problems
Deliberate state actions to make an unsustainable physical environment
Processes and systems that inhibit people from meeting their basic needs
11. Political, economic, and social factors have often been invisible in US biomedicine and epidemiology. This is true for most countries around the world.
True
False
12. While it is important to note the milestones of medical knowledge and progress in biomedicine, it is also equally important to critically assess the power and authority of biomedical knowledge and systems.
True
False
13. Infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, have co-evolved with humans through biological and cultural adaptations over time.
True
False
14. (Choose all that apply) The Hewletts argue that medical anthropologists provided useful insights of the Ebola crisis. What are some of these insights?
Some local practices were health enhancing, like keeping children away from sick individuals and isolating victims.
Respectful listening to community perspectives resulted in identifying outbreaks that were otherwise undetected.
Local people had a cure for Ebola, and medical anthropologists were able to elicit it during interviews.
Medical anthropologists assisted in modifying control measures to both prevent further spread and meet cultural needs.
15. Farmer advocates for infectious disease models and assumptions to be dynamic, systematic, and critical. Please match each concept to the argument made in its favor.
1. Dynamic
2. Systematic
3. Critical
We should ask how existing frameworks might limit our ability to identify important trends, as well as ask more difficult and rarely raised questions.
Analysis should not be hemmed in by political or administrative borders - important for understanding transnational pandemics.
Instead of focusing on "free-range individual behaviors" we should pay attention to underlying sociohistorical influences on behavior choices, patterns, and population health.