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Yu spends most of his time in the countryside picking herbs to use in his place of work.He dries the herbs and makes teas and elixirs for his customers,who are ill people who distrust doctors and Western medicine in general.His clients use his concoctions to treat their maladies instead of going to a doctor.What term do sociologists use to describe Yu's practices?

A) alternative medicine
B) faith healing
C) complementary medicine
D) herbal remedy cures

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Akiki is a 16-year-old orphan girl from Uganda.What can be inferred from the textbook about her situation?

A) She was probably orphaned because her parents died of AIDS.
B) She will likely be placed into a state institution for orphaned children.
C) Her parents were probably killed by government troops.
D) Her parents were likely murdered by members of a gang.

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When Sonia came to the United States,she was bewildered by the magnitude of health-care choices available.Some people in her home village in the mountains of Peru seek health advice from local healers who have no formal training.Sonia had learned many of these techniques from a healer in Peru and decided to offer herbal remedies to cancer patients in the United States to combat the side effects of the chemotherapy treatments they were receiving from their doctors.What term do sociologists use to describe what Sonia offers?

Which of Corbin and Strauss's types of work involves the process of incorporating an illness into one's life,making sense of it,and developing ways of explaining it to others?

April is a woman,and Jack is a man.Which of the following statements is true?

What term refers to the set of principles underpinning Western medical systems and practices that defines diseases objectively,in accordance with the presence of recognized symptoms,and holds that the healthy body can be restored through scientifically based medical treatment?

One of the major barriers to the treatment of the HIV and AIDS epidemic worldwide is:

According to the textbook,currently,traditional attitudes toward sex exist alongside much more permissive attitudes,which developed widely and became openly public:

Max's sexual orientation is homosexual.Most sociologists would claim that:

Priyanka is a sociologist who thinks that society usually operates in a smooth and consensual manner.What school of sociology mentioned in the textbook does she probably belong to?

Jules is a man who regularly dresses as a woman.According to the textbook,Jules is:

What is the definition of obesity?

Alfred Kinsey's research,which began in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s,was surprising because it revealed:

According to the textbook,why did diseases such as smallpox and measles produce epidemics that ravaged or completely wiped out native populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans in the late 15th century?