Psychiatry has been a frequent subject of medical anthropology. One critical finding is:
a. The Freudian model of psychoanalysis is appropriate to all cultures universally.
b. People in all cultures experience universal psycho-sexual stages of development.
c. Schizophrenics are considered ill in Western cultures but are considered religiously enlightened in other cultures.
d. Doctors are most frequently trained to treat mental disease as a result of either biological dysfunction or psychosocial factors but not both.
e. Mental illness is always caused by social factors, but because of the influence of drug companies, doctors are reluctant to believe this finding.
Question 2
A critical insight of medical anthropology is that:
a. Disease and medicine never exist independently from culture.
b. Diseases are universal, biological entities and have little relation to culture.
c. There is a single, universal medical model that is applicable to all cultures.
d. Although diseases may have different names and different treatments in different cultures, the same diseases are present in all cultures.
e. Traditional cultures have a greater number of diseases that modern medicine considers psychological than does modern culture.
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