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CHAPTER 2
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the statements below is true, according to the authors of your text?
a. Nearly 18 percent of Americans under 65 do not have any health insurance.
b. Economic class, race, and ethnicity are correlated with the risk of becoming
seriously ill.
c. The heavy burden on the American healthcare system would be alleviated by
emphasizing more on prevention of illness.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
2. The text points out that in impoverished regions of the world, where high-quality medical
care is often lacking, the social problems associated with physical health are profound.
Which of the following is NOT one of these problems?
a. the spread of infectious diseases
b. high rates of infant and maternal death
c. vitamin deficiencies
d. low life expectancies
e. inadequate sewage and water systems
3. Which of the following are among the most important indicators of how well a society is
providing health care for its population?
a. the number of hospitals and the number of hospital administrators
b. life span and the size of the 65-year-old part of the population
c. the birthrate and the death rate
d. the number of medical schools and the number of physicians
e. life expectancy and infant mortality
4. When one compares life expectancy and related indicators for low-income economies
and industrial market economies, one finds that low-income economies have
__________.
a. a longer life expectancy
b. lower rates of infant mortality
c. lower rates of mortality for children aged 1-4 years
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
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6. The average age to which members of a society live is the measure called __________.
a. life span
b. longevity span
c. life expectancy
d. life chances
e. lifestyle
7. Which of the following statements best explains the differences in life expectancy
between "developed" and less developed nations?
a. More war occurs in developed nations.
b. People in more developed nations are more likely to survive childhood diseases
and parasites.
c. Modern medicine isn't used at all in less developed nations.
d. There are more famines in developed nations.
e. The more developed nations are located in more favorable climates.
8. According to the text, in the United States our comparatively poor health is largely due to
the _________ .
a. low birth rates and high life expectancy
b. the number of healthcare professionals available
c. growing inequality and lifestyle problems
d. emergence of new and deadly epidemics
e. diversion of medical resources from basic healthcare
9. Which of the following statements about food and health in the global marketplace is
FALSE?
a. Governments should impose strict inspection and regulation of processed foods
and animals, for the health and safety of all nations.
b. The outbreaks of “mad cow” and “bird flu” may differ from a medical standpoint,
but sociologically, they raise similar problems of the distribution of knowledge
and power.
c. Governments and corporations tend to delay informing the authorities and general
public that the spread of infections is imminent, and that their inaction may be to
blame.
d. When it comes to outbreaks of food and animal-borne disease, researchers and
medical experts are given access to the most relevant data to help them curb the
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spread of disease.
10. Longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality are correlated with __________.
a. the number of health-care professionals available
b. a higher daily protein supply per person
c. a larger number of midwives per person
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
11. In the poorest regions of the world, which of the following is NOT associated with high
infant and child mortality?
a. poor birthing techniques
b. malnutrition
c. a decline in breastfeeding
d. inadequate sanitation and health facilities
e. All of the above are associated.
12. Which of the following is a factor detracting from better health among Americans?
a. the growing number of people in sedentary occupations
b. environmental pollution and cigarette smoking
c. fattening, nonnutritious foods in our diet
d. All of the above are factors.
e. None of the above is a factor.
13. The subfield of sociology that specializes in research on the health-care system and its
impact on the public is called __________.
a. the sociology of illness
b. health-care sociology
c. medical sociology
d. gerontology
e. demography
14. In studying access to health care, sociologists find that __________ is/are most likely to
affect access.
a. personal characteristics of the individual
b. the time at which the illness strikes
c. occupation aspired to by the person
d. social inequality
e. the person's social and political views
15. Medical sociologists often point out that the institutions of American health care are the
source of many health-care problems, largely because the health-care system DID NOT
develop __________.
a. in such a way that doctors maintain private practices, society supports hospitals,
and insurance allows these two to function.
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A nobler counsel breathes from the charter of our independence; a
happier province belongs to our republic. Peace we would extend,
but by persuasion and example,—the moral force, by which alone it
can prevail among the nations. Wars we may encounter, but it is in
the sacred character of the injured and the wronged; to raise the
trampled rights of humanity from the dust; to rescue the mild form
of liberty from her abode among the prisons and the scaffolds of the
elder world, and to seat her in the chair of state among her adoring
children; to give her beauty for ashes; a healthful action for her cruel
agony; to put at last a period to her warfare on earth; to tear her star-
spangled banner from the perilous ridges of battle, and plant it on
the rock of ages. There be it fixed for ever,—the power of a free
people slumbering in its folds, their peace reposing in its shade!
Close of the Speech of Daniel Webster
January, 1832.
Mr. President,—The plain and seemingly obvious truth, that in a
fair and equal exchange of commodities all parties gained, is a noble
discovery of modern times. The contrary principle naturally led to
commercial rivalries, wars, and abuses of all sorts. The benefits of
commerce being regarded as a stake to be won, or an advantage to be
wrested from others by fraud or by force, governments naturally
strove to secure them to their own subjects; and when they once set
out in this wrong direction, it was quite natural that they should not
stop short till they ended in binding, in the bonds of restriction, not
only the whole country, but all of its parts. Thus we are told that
England first protected by her restrictive policy, her whole empire
against all the world, then Great Britain against the colonies, then
the British islands against each other, and ended by vainly
attempting to protect all the great interests and employment of the
state by balancing them against each other. Sir, such a system,
carried fully out, is not confined to rival nations, but protects one
town against another, considers villages, and even families as rivals;
and cannot stop short of “Robinson Crusoe in his goat skins.” It takes
but one step further to make every man his own lawyer, doctor,
farmer, and shoemaker—and, if I may be allowed an Irishism, his
own seamstress and washerwoman. The doctrine of free trade, on the
contrary, is founded on the true social system. It looks on all
mankind as children of a common parent—and the great family of
nations as linked together by mutual interests. Sir, as there is a
religion, so I believe there is a politics of nature. Cast your eyes over
this various earth—see its surface diversified by hills and valleys,
rocks, and fertile fields. Notice its different productions—its infinite
varieties of soil and climate. See the mighty rivers winding their way
to the very mountain’s base, and thence guiding man to the vast
ocean, dividing, yet connecting nations. Can any man who considers
these things with the eye of a philosopher, not read the design of the
great Creator (written legibly in his works) that his children should
be drawn together in a free commercial intercourse, and mutual
exchanges of the various gifts with which a bountiful Providence has
blessed them. Commerce, sir, restricted even as she has been, has
been the great source of civilization and refinement all over the
world. Next to the Christian religion, I consider free trade in its
largest sense as the greatest blessing that can be conferred upon any
people. Hear, sir, what Patrick Henry, the great orator of Virginia,
whose soul was the very temple of freedom, says on this subject:—
“Why should we fetter commerce? If a man is in chains, he droops and bows to
the earth, because his spirits are broken, but let him twist the fetters from his legs,
and he will stand erect. Fetter not commerce! Let her be as free as the air. She will
range the whole creation, and return on the four winds of heaven to bless the land
with plenty.”
But, it has been said, that free trade would do very well, if all
nations would adopt it; but as it is, every nation must protect itself
from the effect of restrictions by countervailing measures. I am
persuaded, sir, that this is a great, a most fatal error. If retaliation is
resorted to for the honest purpose of producing a redress of the
grievance, and while adhered to no longer than there is a hope of
success, it may, like war itself, be sometimes just and necessary. But
if it have no such object, “it is the unprofitable combat of seeing
which can do the other the most harm.” The case can hardly be
conceived in which permanent restrictions, as a measure of
retaliation, could be profitable. In every possible situation, a trade,
whether more or less restricted, is profitable, or it is not. This can
only be decided by experience, and if the trade be left to regulate
itself, water would not more naturally seek its level, than the
intercourse adjust itself to the true interest of the parties. Sir, as to
this idea of the regulation by government of the pursuits of men, I
consider it as a remnant of barbarism disgraceful to an enlightened
age, and inconsistent with the first principles of rational liberty. I
hold government to be utterly incapable, from its position, of
exercising such a power wisely, prudently, or justly. Are the rulers of
the world the depositories of its collected wisdom? Sir, can we forget
the advice of a great statesman to his son—“Go, see the world, my
son, that you may learn with how little wisdom mankind is
governed.” And is our own government an exception to this rule, or
do we not find here, as every where else, that
“Man, proud man,
Robed in a little brief authority,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,
As make the angels weep?”
I confess I feel anxious for the fate of this measure, less on account
of any agency I have had in proposing it, as I hope and believe, than
from a firm, sincere and thorough conviction, that no one measure
ever presented to the councils of the nation, was fraught with so
much unmixed good, and could exert such powerful and enduring
influence in the preservation of the union itself and upon some of its
highest interests. If I can be instrumental, in any degree, in the
adoption of it, I shall enjoy, in that retirement into which I hope
shortly to enter, a heart-feeling satisfaction and a lasting consolation.
I shall carry there no regrets, no complaints, no reproaches on my
own account. When I look back upon my humble origin, left an
orphan too young to have been conscious of a father’s smiles and
caresses; with a widowed mother, surrounded by a numerous
offspring, in the midst of pecuniary embarrassments; without a
regular education, without fortune, without friends, without patrons,
I have reason to be satisfied with my public career. I ought to be
thankful for the high places and honors to which I have been called
by the favor and partiality of my countrymen, and I am thankful and
grateful. And I shall take with me the pleasing consciousness that in
whatever station I have been placed, I have earnestly and honestly
labored to justify their confidence by a faithful, fearless, and zealous
discharge of my public duties. Pardon these personal allusions.
Speech of John C. Calhoun,