Test Bank Health and Society, Critical Perspectives 1st Edition by James Gillett, Gavin Andrews, Mat Savelli.
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TEST BANK Health and Society, Critical Perspectives by James Gillett
CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Critical Health Studies
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How are we engaged with the “breadth of the topic of health?”
a) Through our experiences with healthcare providers
b) Through the experiences of our own bodies
c) Through our observations of healthcare facilities
d) Through our consumption of health information in the media
e) All of the above
2. Which of the following is not a sub-discipline of health studies?
a) Health geography
b) Healthy sociology
c) Health humanitarianism
d) Medical anthropology
e) Health economics
3. Which discipline within health studies is most notable?
a) Health sociology
b) Anthropology of health
c) Health geography
d) Health psychology
e) Biology
4. Which of the following is (broadly speaking) a question that health studies asks?
a) How is the concept of health socially constructed?
b) What issues present themselves in health and healthcare?
c) How does power play a role in health?
d) How will the concept and experience of health change in the future?
e) All of the above
5. Which type of data is most useful in health studies?
a) Quantitative data
b) Qualitative data
c) Patient records
d) Long-form census data
e) Statistics Canada data
6. According to the text, what is the “hallmark” of health studies?
a) Its interdisciplinary approach
b) Its focus on health
c) Its focus on social justice
d) Its focus on public advocacy
e) Its critical thinking perspective
,7. Amongst the disciplines of health studies, which of the following is not a core facet of a critical
approach?
a) Using an objective approach
b) Challenging social and institutional norms
c) Advocating for marginalized populations
d) Using a public approach
e) Relating the local to the global
8. What does it mean to have a public approach in health studies?
a) Health studies doesn’t use a public approach
b) To create research findings for the benefit of the general public
c) To directly engage with public issues and debates in health
d) To help address medical problems in society
e) To make all findings available on open access
9. What does “thinking outside of the box” in health studies mean?
a) Engaging with very unique problems in health
b) Producing new ideas that are potentially unconventional or even radical
c) Developing the conventional notions of health to the highest level of knowledge
d) Producing new ideas that work well within the dominant paradigm
e) None of the above
10. What are components of a critical consideration of “global health”?
a) Looking at and describing local “Western” values
b) Looking at global health phenomena
c) Moral questions of international responsibility
d) How the local effects the global
e) All of the above
11. Which of the following philosophical and social theories is not named as a useful means to
understanding complex health matters?
a) Feminism
b) Post-structuralism
c) Post-humanism
d) Post-Existentialism
e) Post-colonialism
12. What does it mean to occupy a “third space”?
a) To move from health to illness and then to recovery
b) A conceptual understanding of health outside of subjectivity and objectivity
c) To move between academic research and activism
d) To move between certainty and questioning
e) To move between knowledge of the local and global
13. According to Blomley (2006), what must critical research involve?
a) Solidarity with fellow humanity
b) To create controversial ideas
, c) To examine health globally
d) To occupy a “third space”
e) To exercise research ethically
14. What does it mean to be reflexive in health studies research?
a) To embrace the objective science of health problems as well as the social issues
b) To move to the “third space”
c) To use both qualitative and quantitative methods in research
d) To use as many theoretical approaches as possible to examine a phenomenon
e) To recognize the fallibility of your discipline
15. What is the role in health studies in examining “evidence-based” healthcare practices?
a) To provide empirical support
b) To dismiss this approach
c) To deconstruct the social forces at work in the approach
d) To provide case studies which speak to the values inherent in this approach
e) To reinforce the value of the status quo
16. Some have criticized critical research as the new conventional. What does this mean?
a) It has become a conventional stream of thought
b) It has become quite popular as a form of scholarship
c) It is not very radical anymore
d) It has lost some connection to advocacy
e) It has become normal and mundane
17. What does the concern that critical research has tended to over-theorize the world mean?
a) Validating a researcher’s theory becomes paramount
b) Pointing out the overdependence on theory rather than fact
c) Interferes with the valuable work of evidence-based research
d) Denies the value of objective fact-based research
e) Raises epistemological questions about the validity of theory
18. Some have criticized critical research as naturalizing social situations. What does this critique
mean?
a) Theory denies the possibility of health problems as being inherently human
b) A subjective approach poses as objective
c) Social problems in health are beyond humanities’ power to avoid or change
d) Too much time is spent dwelling on human natures
e) It uses the natural sciences too often
19. When some say that health studies has become predictable, which criticism are they speaking of?
a) Conventionality
b) Over-theorizing
c) Naturalizing
d) Lack of humility
e) Fallaciousness
20. Which of the following statements is true regarding the case study on physicians and gifts?
, a) Small gifts work because doctors think they are incapable of affecting their judgments
b) Gift-giving to physicians doesn’t affect their prescriptive behaviours
c) Gift-giving is entirely dictated by physicians, and they refuse to change it
d) Physicians who accept more gifts from pharmaceutical companies are more likely to become
addicted to the company’s drug
e) All the gifts were alcoholic beverages
True or False Questions
1. Health studies addresses health by questioning the very existence of illness and disease as part of
its “criticality.”
2. Wellbeing is an experiential state of interest to health studies .
3. Health studies is most interested in the social, but not cultural, construction of health and illness.
4. Health studies is distinguished from other disciplines because of the same approach presented
across North American universities and colleges.
5. Social scientists studying gift giving have noted the very basic principle that gift giving increases
the likelihood of a person being willing to reciprocate, whether through favours, consent, or gifts
themselves.
6. Considering health issues as local matters that effect global conditions carries with it significant
moral obligations for health studies researchers.
7. It was suggested by Kitchen and Hubbard (1999) that the current divide between academia and
outside life diminished academia’s “authority” and, therefore, research must be situated in the
public.
8. Challenging the evidence-based approach is driven by an epistemic challenge to the accuracy and
validity of the facts being produced.
9. Naturalizing social situations runs the risk of conceiving humans as powerless to change their
situations.
10. Over-theorizing health issues prioritizes the situation faced by people, but makes the work too
complex to understand.
11. Blomley (2006) notes that a key part of health studies is defining and analyzing a problem and
then posing less oppressive alternatives.
12. In the case study, the influence of gift-giving is very common but has yet to become
“normalized.”
13. One major feature of the critique of “formulaic” health studies research is that is unpredictable.
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