Scientific racism is:

A pseudoscientific belief that humans are divided into hierarchical races

Anthropologists critique cultural competency for:

All of the available answer choices are correct.

For Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Dissent" refers to:

Abortion providers comply with the law, but also find ways to subvert it

Eugenia Kaw ("Medicalization of Racial Features") argues that the plastic surgery industry (and biomedicine):

Individualize the social problems of racial inequality

What do anthropologists have to offer to field of bioethics? (Pick BEST answer)

Emphasis on cultural and historical determinants that shape moral dilemmas

Applied medical anthropologists:

Seek to translate their research into imprved health outcomes and justice

A utilitarian approach:

An action is right if it produces the best consequences

For Kleinman and Benson, "cultural competency" in medicine is problematic for all reasons, except:

It assumes that culture matters in illness experience, but it does not

For Eugenia Kaw, the practice of double-eyelid surgery among Asian American women:

Reflects internalized racism and oppression

For anthropologist Emily Wentzell, “ethical intercorporeality” pushes back on which bioethical principle?

Autonomy, which approaches medical and moral decision-making as individual

Justice, as a moral principle, describes:

a fair and equitable distribution of health resources

For anthropologists, ethnographic interviewing:

offers a window into the lived experiences of individuals and communities

All but which factor contributed to the birth of bioethics?

The establishment of the four moral principles (beneficence, justice...)

Structural competency

All of the available answer choices are correct

Malawian survey participant objections to soap as research compensation reveal:

The limits of bioethical principles when exported globally

For medical anthropologists, the process of "medicalization":

Is a double-edged sword with benefits and drawbacks

For anthropologist Cal Biruk, Soap was an unethical compensation for research participation because:

Soap was a symbol of injustice and metaphor for past failures of state aid

The Egyptian kidey failure patients that Sherine Hamdy studied:

Attributed their broken bodies to the broken state of Egypt

What factors have contributed to the “tentative relationship" between bioethics and anthropology?

All of the available answers are correct

The transformation of a phenomenon into a biomedical problem

What does Mara Buchbinder argue in Scripting Death?

Both Yellow and Green are correct

If "disease" refers to biomedically measurable lesions, "illness":

is the subjective experience of being unwell

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1
Bioethical principles are globally applicable
True
False
2
Emily Wentzell conducted ethnographic research on the HIM study in which country?
Malawi
Mexico
United States
Egypt
3
Scientific racism is:
A pseudoscientific belief that humans are divided into hierarchical races
An empirical fact
The fear and loathing that many black Americans harbor toward biomedicine
A key tenet of medical anthropology
4
Western biomedicine is:
a cultural system
The best healing system
a traditional healing art
an acultural system
5
Anthropologists critique cultural competency for:
Assumes only patients have culture; ignores the culture of biomedicine.
Misusing the concept of “culture” by taking a check-list approach.
All of the available answer choices are correct.
Overdetermining the role of culture in health-related behavior.
6
The practice by which patients locate the cause of disease in state corruption
Political etiologies
Scientific racism
Structural violence
Ethical intercorporeality
7
For Mara Buchbinder, "Scripting Dissent" refers to:
The ways that aid-in-dying engenders new socialites
Abortion providers comply with the law, but also find ways to subvert it
None of the available answer choices are correct
How individuals choose to enact aid-in-dying in Vermont
8
Eugenia Kaw ("Medicalization of Racial Features") argues that the plastic surgery industry (and biomedicine):
Allow women to enhance their appearance
Individualize the social problems of racial inequality
Facilitates eugenics
Creates a biosocial community of sufferers
9
What do anthropologists have to offer to field of bioethics? (Pick BEST answer)
An emphasis on ethnographic interviewing
A critique of principalism
Emphasis on cultural and historical determinants that shape moral dilemmas
Very little
10
"Emic" refers to ideas that cultural insiders have about themselves
True
False
11
Which author is associated with the concept of "iatrophobia"?
Emily Wentzell
Patricia Marshall
Harriet Washington
Paul Farmer
12
Applied medical anthropologists:
Spend most of their energies publishing
Are atheoretical
Seek to translate their research into imprved health outcomes and justice
Do not work in universities
13
A utilitarian approach:
None of the available answers are correct
An action is right if it is what a virtuous agent would do
Is a case-based method of reasoning
An action is right if it produces the best consequences
14
For Kleinman and Benson, "cultural competency" in medicine is problematic for all reasons, except:
It ignores how biomedical doctors too are embedded in a cultural world.
it assumes people can become experts of "cultures by memorizing facts
It overemphasizes culture at the expense of other fators, like class
It assumes that culture matters in illness experience, but it does not
15
For Eugenia Kaw, the practice of double-eyelid surgery among Asian American women:
NOne of the above
Is a practiceal means to advancement in a racist job market
Is an empowering practice to enhance self-esteem
Reflects internalized racism and oppression
16
For anthropologist Emily Wentzell, “ethical intercorporeality” pushes back on which bioethical principle?
None of the available answer choices are correct
Autonomy, which approaches medical and moral decision-making as individual
Justice, the idea that medical resources should be fairly distributed
Beneficence, the idea that doctors/researchers must protect subjects
17
Justice, as a moral principle, describes:
the obligation of physician to act for the benefit of the patient
the obligation of a physician not to harm the patient.
a fair and equitable distribution of health resources
giving persons independence in their medical decisions and actions
18
Who founded Partners in Health, which expands access to medical care in and beyond Haiti?
Arthur Kleinman
Mara Buchbinder
Paul Farmer
Merrill Singer
19
For anthropologists, ethnographic interviewing:
offers a window into the lived experiences of individuals and communities
is not a research method but rather a theoretical approach
happens in every conversation between two people
is a quantitative method
20
Which of the following are real examples of medical/scientific racism in U.S. history?
forced sterilization among Black, native, and Latinx women.
All of the above.
use of enslaved Black people's bodies in medical training
The Tuskegee Experiment
21
All but which factor contributed to the birth of bioethics?
The establishment of the four moral principles (beneficence, justice...)
The advent of new biomedical technologies like respirators
A fraught political climate of mobilizations for social justice
Demands for moral philosophy to be more relevant to real-life issues
22
Structural competency
Responds to concept of structural vulnerability
Brings social structural variables—poverty, discrimination—into view.
All of the available answer choices are correct
Takes a social determinants of health perspective
23
Malawian survey participant objections to soap as research compensation reveal:
That Western scientists need training in bioethics
That Malawi is not a good place to conduct survey research
The limits of bioethical principles when exported globally
That survey respondents are demanding
24
For medical anthropologists, the process of "medicalization":
Can be eliminated with better medical anthropology education
Is a damaging process that reduces people to thier illness
Helps patients gain access to medicine and social recognition
Is a double-edged sword with benefits and drawbacks
25
Medical aid in dying is legal in all of these places except:
Vermont
Oregon
Montanna
Connecticut
26
For medical anthropologists, race:
is a social construct
includes at least seven categories
helps us understand why certain patients refuse to take medications
is as a biological reality
27
The process of transforming phenomena into medical problems that justify biomedical intervention is called:
Political etiologies
Medicalization
Iatrophobia
Cultural competency
28
The doctor's white coat symbolizes all BUT:
Scientific authority
Compulsory heterosexuality
Godliness
Sexual Purity
29
As a field, bioethics emerged in the:
1920's
2000's
1980's
1960's
30
For Mara Buchbinder, medical aid-in-dying challenges Foucauldian:
aspirational deaths
biopolitics
panopticon
notions of population control
31
For anthropologist Cal Biruk, Soap was an unethical compensation for research participation because:
Soap was a symbol of injustice and metaphor for past failures of state aid
Surveys participants really wanted sugar, not soap
It is worth so much that it invalidates voluntary participation
The soap was in demand and caused people to fight over who received it
32
The Egyptian kidey failure patients that Sherine Hamdy studied:
None of the above
Read their doctors bodily movements as indications of their social status
Attributed their broken bodies to the broken state of Egypt
Saw their bodies as "slippery" like the Egyptian state
33
What factors have contributed to the “tentative relationship" between bioethics and anthropology?
The emphasis on cultural relativism in anthropology vs. moral universalism
Anthropology's historical emphasis on research in non-Western settings
Anthropology's tendency to study groups rather than individuals
All of the available answers are correct
34
Medical anthropologists study:
Doctor-patient interactions in cross-cultural perspective
Drug use and addiction
All ov the above
Reproduction: birth, abortion, menstruation
35
"Medicalization"
The abosrption of traditional healing arts by biomedicine
The process of becoming a doctor
The simultaneous use of two or more medical systems
The transformation of a phenomenon into a biomedical problem
36
What does Mara Buchbinder argue in Scripting Death?
None of the available answer choices are correct
MAID is very inaccessible and only few can have such a privileged death
Both Yellow and Green are correct
MAID allows individuals to “script” their own death, affording agency
37
A host of offenses against human dignity including spectuacular forms of violence that are human rights abuses
Interpersonal violence
Symbolic violence
Structural violence
Microagression
38
If "disease" refers to biomedically measurable lesions, "illness":
is a social construct
refers to the kind of disease that doctors get
is the subjective experience of being unwell
can be identified in the body
39
In the 1600s-1800s Southern physicians were embedded in the institution of slavery
True
False
40
Mara Buchbinder's book Scripting Death takes place in:
Vermont
Oregon
Montana
North Carolina

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