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Part One: Identifications

For each of the five concepts below, please provide a brief explanationin your own words describing what the termmeans. (Approx. 2-3 sentences per term)

Please provide an example from our course materials (readings, documentaries/clips, lectures, slides) that provide an illustration of each concept.

1.) Social Health Gradient/Social Health Ladder

2.) Naturalistic Fallacy

3.) Ideological Loop

4.) Eugenics

5.) Biopower

Part Two: Short Essays

1.) In the first half of our course, we have explored the concept of biological determinism in relation to a series of social identities, categories, and experiences. We have also explored the concept of social construction and compared it to biological determinism.

First, pleaseexplain whatthe termbiological determinismmeans - how might we define this concept? What are the assumptions and the logic/reasoning that guide biological determinist arguments?

Next, please consider what real or potential consequences might resultfrom applying a biological determinist approach to the study of race, ethnicity, sex, and/or gender.

Then, please explainwhattheconcept ofsocial constructionmeans-how might we define this concept? What are theassumptions and the logic/reasoning that guide social constructionist arguments?

Finally, please consider what real or potential consequences might result from applying a social constructionist approach to the study of race, ethnicity, sex, and/or gender.

2.) We have also been considering what it means to approach medical questions and concerns from epidemiological and public health perspectives. Such approaches are related to, but distinct from, individual-centered clinical approaches to health and well-being.

First, please explain what characteristics distinguish epidemiology and public health approaches to the study and practice of health and well-being from other understandings and practices of medicine.

Next, please discusshow epidemiological and public health approaches to questions of risk, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment/curerelate to broader systemic/structural questions concerning race, ethnicity, gender, sex, and class/SES. What role do systemic social variables/relations play in epidemiological and public health research and practice?

Finally, what limitations or critiquesof epidemiological or public health approaches to health and medicine have we considered?