According to Scheper-Hughes in Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping, doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
a. failed to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies.
b. refused to examine poor babies.
c. prescribed drugs that their mothers cannot afford to buy for their sick babies.
d. hospitalized poor sick babies because the infants' mothers could not care for them.
Question 2
The Catholic Church's theology of liberation changed the way the Church handled infant deaths. Under this theology,
a. a priest accompanied each funeral procession to the cemetery.
b. mothers were encouraged to believe that a saint had claimed the child.
c. a municipal gravedigger oversaw the burial without offering any prayers or sign of the cross.
d. the bells of the parish church rang at each infant's funeral.
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