quiz 1

The World Health Organization defines health as:

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being

A disgruntled coworker infects a box of pastries with dysentery, causing several staff to become ill. This is an example of:

Bioterrorism

Decline in deaths from infectious diseases in the second half of the nineteenth century was mainly due to

Improvements in diet, housing, and public sanitation.

With the transition to a greater prevalence of chronic diseases, physicians have increasingly had to take which approach to medical care?

"Whole person" care

The medicine of social spaces is concerned with:

Preventing disease

Most sociologists of medicine are employed as:

Professors at universities

What important event occurred in 1951 that began to reorient American medical sociology toward the use of theory?

The publication of Parsons's The Social System.

In which study were syphilis patients intentionally not treated and allowed to die?

Tuskegee

Which is NOT a major area of investigation in medical sociology?

All of the above answers are major areas of investigation in medical sociology

The appearance of the West Nile virus in New York city reflects:

The role of globalization in the spread of infectious diseases