MHU Quiz

During which of these time periods did the humanities emerge?

Questions about the meaning of life are what kinds of questions?

According to the medical humanities field, what kind of questions are essential to medicine?

Which uses imagination to help us understand the human experience, leading to more empathy and better caregiving?

How do the medical humanities understand the meaning of death and dying?

Throughout the history of medicine, definitions of and ideas about disease have

In the 1950s-1980s, doctors on television were represented as heroes.

MHU focuses on roles of gender, class, religion, and race, and aspects of identity. Therefore, as a field, MHU is

Who was a Greek philosopher, surgeon, and physician during the Roman Empire?

The emergence of the humanities as a field coincided with the development of democracy as a system of government.

The doctor-patient relationship has stayed the same since the beginning of the history of medicine.

Specializing in one field of medicine, instead of generalist family doctor, is a recent development in modern medicine.

The development of the widespread use of medical technology CT/MRIs and the increase in physician specialization led to

The term medical humanities was first coined in the U.S. in the 1960s.

The most famous saying attributed to the Hippocratic Oath is

            The field of medical humanities attempts to re-humanize medicine. This means

When did the humanities first develop as a field?

An oath of ethics historically taken by medical students and named after a Greek medical text is

The medical humanities merges the sciences with imagination, which is the root of all

For much of history, doctors treated entire generations of families and visited people’s homes to treat patients.

What is the Hippocratic Oath?

Which of the following is an important medical technology that shaped the history of medicine?

When was the Scientific Method introduced?

Why is it important to understand the way media representation shapes our understanding of medicine?

How did the development of antiseptics and other advancements in technology and understanding affect modern medicine?

            One reason medical humanities emerged as a field was

The stethoscope, x-ray, and anesthesia are examples of

The doctor-patient relationship has changed throughout history and culture.

Galen and Hippocrates are two important figures in the history of early medicine.

The humanities as a field is defined as

The mhu lens examines contexts, experiences, critical analysis, of human experiences of health, illness, and medicine

Disease is a person’s experiences and illness is what happens to the body.

Religion is studied in the MHU field because

Understanding that concepts of death and dying have changed throughout history can help us

By reading literature, fiction or non-fiction, physicians can develop increased empathy, which leads to

Society influenced what counted as disease

History and culture have shaped doctor-patient relationships in different time periods and places.

For much of history, doctors were often

The cultural and social history of death and dying in the west

There is not a difference between disease and illness.