Which of the following statements about medical anthropology is TRUE?
A. Typically in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, this field does market research on the use of health products around the world.
B. This field applies Western medicine to solving health problems around the world.
C. This growing field considers the biocultural context and implications of disease and illness.
D. It is the field that proved that people from rural areas suffer only from illnesses and not diseases.
E. It applies non-Western health knowledge to a troubled industrialized medical system.
Answer: C
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