__________ is a disease contracted from human waste used as fertilizer in rice fields.
A) Hookworm
B) Malaria
C) Tuberculosis
D) Measles
Question 2
The ecological/epidemiological approach in medical anthropology involves __________.
A) study of how the natural environment interacts with culture to cause disease
B) study of the interaction among politics, religion, and health
C) a focus on how genetics influences death and disease
D) attention to the symbols that different cultures use to represent natural causes of death
Functional MRI Scans These scans of human brains show localized average increases in neural activity
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Amyloid plaques (stained blue) in the brain of a deceased patient who had Alzheimer’s disease.
Bones of the human skeleton
Annotation of a DNA sequence containing part of the human globin gene
A sampling of bacterial diversity. Most bacteria do not cause disease.