What is a disease?
A. a health problem as it is experienced by the one affected
B. an artificial product of biomedicine
C. a consequence of a foraging lifestyle
D. an unnatural state of health
E. a scientifically identified health threat
Question 2
Which of the following is true about medical anthropology?
A. It is the field that proved that people from rural areas suffer only from illnesses and not diseases.
B. It applies non-Western health knowledge to a troubled industrialized medical system.
C. Typically in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, this field does market research on the use of health products around the world.
D. This field applies Western medicine to solving health problems around the world.
E. This growing field considers the biocultural context and implications of disease and illness.
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