According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
a. failed to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies.
b. refused to examine poor babies.
c. prescribed drugs that their mothers cannot afford to buy for their sick babies.
d. hospitalized poor sick babies because the infants' mothers could not care for them.
Correct Answer: a
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