Why is the ritual aspect of many ethnomedical traditions so perplexing to Westerners?
A) We have no such rituals in our culture, and so do not understand why they are important.
B) There is evidence that ritual actually worsens the outcome of treatment.
C) Western cultures believe that the less fuss you make over an illness, the faster it will go away.
D) There is an assumption in biomedicine that the mind is fundamentally different from the body.
D) There is an assumption in biomedicine that the mind is fundamentally different from the body.
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a. descent cousins b. true cousins c. parallel cousins d. cross-cousins
In nearly all cultures that believe in gods, the gods are believed to have __________
A) created themselves B) been born of a human mother C) created the world D) walked on earth
Proponents of "creation science" hold that their ideas are absolute and infallible
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The first systematic sound recordings were made on:
a. vinyl records. b. phonographic cylinders. c. paraffin hieroglyphs. d. compact cassettes.