Which of the Following Is True About Medical Anthropology

question 54

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about medical anthropology?

• A) It is the field that proved that people from rural areas suffer only from illnesses and not diseases.
• B) It applies non-Western health knowledge to a troubled industrialized medical system.
• C) Typically in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, this field does market research on the use of health products around the world.
• D) This field applies Western medicine to solving health problems around the world.
• E) This growing field considers the biocultural context and implications of disease and illness.

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