Distinguish between medicine’s biomedical paradigm and medical anthropology’s emphasis on a biocultural synthesis.

What will be an ideal response?


1. Definitions of both terms
2. Examples of the biomedical paradigm and the mind/body separation
3. Examples of the biocultural synthesis and the involvement of cultural patterns in fighting illness

Anthropology & Archaeology

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A small monkeylike ape from the earliest Miocene in Africa is known as ________

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

Anthropology & Archaeology

The deliberate use of basic ideas in some practical application, such as making use of the knowledge of how electricity works to develop the telephone, is called a(n):

a. diffusion principle. b. primary innovation. c. modernization. d. integrative mechanism. e. secondary innovation.

Anthropology & Archaeology

The _____ investigates claims that peace officers violated the civil rights of a person.

a. FBI b. CIA c. U.S. Attorney General d. Texas Attorney General e. governor

Anthropology & Archaeology

Human babies are about ____ of their mother's size at birth

a. 6 percent b. 8 percent c. 3 percent d. 10 percent e. 5 percent

Anthropology & Archaeology