The Notion That the Power of Modern Medicine Will Continue

question 95

Multiple Choice

The notion that the power of modern medicine will continue to result in improvements in public health indefinitely is unsatisfactory to sociologists because:

• A) it is not based in fact
• B) the achievements have more to do with luck than science
• C) it ignores social and environmental factors in patterns of health and illness
• D) there is more evidence that alternative medicine is the wave of the future
• E) modern medicine has caused more public health problems than it has treated

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