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Question 51. The Chinese medical system, which dates back about 3500 years, initially stressed the balance between the contrasting forces of yin and yang and later added the concept of
  1.    Properties
  2.    Hot and cold properties
  3.    Humors
  4.    Wet and dry properties
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Humors
Answer: (c).Humors
Question 52. In which type of medical system is it assumed that illness is due to impersonal, mechanistic causes in nature that can be potentially understood and cured by the application of the scientific method of discovery?
  1.    Emotionalist
  2.    Naturalistic
  3.    Personality
  4.    Scientific
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Emotionalist
Answer: (a).Emotionalist
Question 53. According to anthropology many cultures have the view that the body should be
  1.    Well conditioned
  2.    Clean
  3.    Kept in an equilibrium
  4.    Be treated with respect
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Kept in an equilibrium
Answer: (c).Kept in an equilibrium
Question 54. According to anthropologists cure a cough by counteracting a curse or removing a substance introduced by a sorcerer is called
  1.    Witch
  2.    Totem
  3.    Shaman
  4.    Religious leader
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Shaman
Answer: (c).Shaman
Question 55. Illness is a condition of poor health perceived or felt by an individual is said by
  1.    In horn and Brown
  2.    Heinemann
  3.    Martin
  4.    Anderson
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> In horn and Brown
Answer: (a).In horn and Brown
Question 56. After working with shamans in Africa, E. Fuller Torrey concluded that they use the same mechanisms and techniques to cure patients as
  1.    Western medical practitioners
  2.    Psychiatrists
  3.    Medical doctors
  4.    Psychologists
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Psychiatrists
Answer: (b).Psychiatrists
Question 57. Which of the following personality illnesses found in Mexico is connected to the perception that some people are "stronger" than others and that their strength can harm "weak" people?
  1.    Aire
  2.    susto
  3.    Mal de ojo
  4.    Nahua
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Mal de ojo
Answer: (c).Mal de ojo
Question 58. Discovering the health-related beliefs, knowledge, and practices of a cultural group is one of the goals of
  1.    Medical researchers in the United States
  2.    Medical anthropology
  3.    Anthropology
  4.    Medical practitioners
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Medical anthropology
Answer: (b).Medical anthropology
Question 59. According to anthropologists in eastern Africa, a disease which came from male truckers and female prostitutes is called as
  1.    Cancer
  2.    AIDS
  3.    HIV
  4.    STDS
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> STDS
Answer: (d).STDS
Question 60. How people understand the causes of illness and death, how they behave, and what resources they marshal to cope with these events are extremely important parts of
  1.    Studying health
  2.    Society
  3.    Culture
  4.    Contemporary anthropology
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Culture
Answer: (c).Culture

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