Which of the Following Would Be an Example of Medicalization

question 70

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be an example of medicalization as defined by critical medical anthropologists?

• A)treating various diseases in Canadian patients,while failing to recognize the underlying cause of much illness which is poverty
• B)the increasing emphasis on on biomedical health care and the the decline of traditional medicine
• C)the increasing reliance on technology to treat disease
• D)the use of preventative medicine to address underlying social causes of disease and illness
• E)the oppressive use of legislation to outlaw midwifery and ethnomedicine

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