Week 14 Quiz

Which statement gives the course's definition of illness?

Select one.

• A biological malfunction of the body as a biomedical practitioner defines it
• A person's account of what caused a problem and what treatment it needs
• The person's and community's experience and meaning of being unwell
• Harm done by social arrangements that put some people in the way of injury

Which anthropologist and work does the course credit with the distinction between disease and illness and with the idea of explanatory models?

Select one.

• Kleinman (1980), Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
• Galtung (1969), "Violence, Peace, and Peace Research"
• Farmer (2004), "An Anthropology of Structural Violence"
• Evans-Pritchard (1937), Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

In the course's illustrative interview, the vendor says of a back strain: "My wife says it's the cold mornings, my doctor says it's the lifting." How many accounts of the cause does this reply hold?

Select one.

• 1, because only the doctor's account is a real cause
• 2
• 3, because the cold, the mornings, and the lifting are separate
• 5, one for each explanatory-model question

The explanatory model has five open questions: cause, timing, what it does to the body, how serious it is, and what treatment it needs. The vendor's reply touches only the cause question. How many of the five questions stay open for a follow-up interview?

Select one.

• 5
• 1
• 2
• 4

True or false: in this course, a cultural concept of distress is used to diagnose the person who reports it.

True or false.

• True
• False

At the course's illustrative market, the market office keeps a first-aid kit, and one vendor brings ginger tea for anyone with a cold. Which term best names this pattern?

Select one.

• Structural violence, because the vendors lack a clinic
• A cultural concept of distress, because colds are shared
• Medical pluralism, the use of more than one system of care at once
• Superstition set against real medicine, because tea is not biomedicine

Who coined the term structural violence?

Select one.

• Farmer, in 2004, who coined it in anthropology
• Galtung, in 1969, in peace research
• Kleinman, in 1980, with explanatory models
• Evans-Pritchard, in 1937, among the Azande

Two illustrative warehouse workers hurt their backs the same way. One has sick leave and a health plan and rests; the other has a temporary contract with neither and is back lifting boxes in two days. Which reading matches the course's idea of structural violence?

Select one.

• The supervisor's shouting at the second worker is the structural violence
• It does not apply, because nobody struck either worker
• It applies only if the second worker was injured on purpose
• The way the jobs are arranged, not any person's blow, puts the second worker more in the way of harm

In the vendor's interview, which pairing correctly labels the emic and the etic?

Select one.

• The vendor's own words, "My back's not what it was", are emic; "explanatory model" is the analyst's etic term
• "Explanatory model" is emic; the vendor's own words are etic
• Both the vendor's words and "explanatory model" are emic, because both describe the back
• The doctor's account is emic and the wife's account is etic

With the vendor's consent, a student plans one follow-up question about the back strain. Which question best fits the course's open, ethical interviewing?

Select one.

• "It was the lifting, wasn't it?"
• "What is your full name, so I can write down your diagnosis?"
• "When did you first notice it, and what do you think brought it on?"
• "Your wife is wrong about the cold mornings, right?"