Chapter 3 Assignment

For this assignment, you will answer questions about Chapter 3.

STEP 1: Read

Read Chapter 3: Healers and Healing in the textbook.

STEP 2: Write your Answers

Please write answers in sentence form.

1. What are at least one way that culture has a role in understandings of disease causation and diagnosis? Why is diagnosis so critical in all healing systems?
2. What stood out to you about the ways that healers can be recruited? And how do healers become socially validated to fill their role?
3. What are alternative and complementary medicines? Why is this an ethnocentric designation?
4. How do acupuncture and chiropractic medicine differ from conventional biomedicine?
5. What stood out to you about the various forms of Navajo healing?
6. How do concepts of death influence medical treatment?
7. What are placebo and nocebo?
8. What role does efficacy play in shaping anti-vaccination attitudes?
9. Feel free to share anything else you thought was interesting from the chapter.

STEP 3: Submit your Answers

Submit your answers by clicking the blue, "Take The Quiz" button below and copying your answers into the box. Although I am using the "quiz" feature for this, it is not a quiz. This is just an assignment. Do your best, but I'm not grading you on getting the right answer; you will be graded based on your sincere attempt to answer the questions and showing that you have read/watched the information, even if you didn't understand all of it.

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STEP 4: Check Answers

After you submit your answers, click on Attempt 1 in your attempt history. You should then be able to see the correct answers to the questions. This information is meant to help you affirm that you were on the right track in understanding the information or, if not, fill gaps in your understanding. You will only be able to see the answers once, so take any notes that you want to.