Based on the Explanations Provided in the Textbook, One Way

question 23

Multiple Choice

Based on the explanations provided in the textbook, one way we might distinguish between the understanding of medical anthropologists regarding "disease" and "illness" is to say

• A) That they are each culturally arbitrary terms without precise meaning.
• B) That whereas disease is universal, illness applies only to particular cultural groups.
• C) That disease refers to biological processes recognized and described within biomedicine, whereas illness is described as an individual's own interpretation of his or her suffering.
• D) That disease refers to more serious forms of illness that needs to be treated by scientific medicine.
• E) That both terms can be replaced by use of the term "sickness," which is culturally relative.

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Definitions:

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