Anthropologists Joao Biehl Is Concerned That Regional Governments in Brazil

question 1

Multiple Choice

Anthropologists Joao Biehl is concerned that regional governments in Brazil have been forced to alter their health budgets drastically to accommodate the demand for high-cost medicines like antiretroviral drugs. He calls this phenomenon

• A) structural violence
• B) embodied inequality
• C) the pharmaceuticalization of public health
• D) the socialization of medicine

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Definitions:

Rationalisation

A defense mechanism in psychology where controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation.

Repression

A defense mechanism where distressing thoughts, memories, or feelings are unconsciously blocked from conscious awareness.

Reaction Formation

A psychological defense mechanism where an individual behaves in a manner opposite to their actual feelings.

Sublimation

A defense mechanism in psychology where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior.