Phil-3375-71 Test One

Answers: True Fals e  Question 9 0 out of 3 points The Hippocratic tradition of medicine was never a particularly influential or authoritative tradition within Western culture until very recently (i.e. the last fifty years or so). Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 10 3 out of 3 points Andrew Weil claims that health is the balance or equilibrium of two contraries: the forces of expansion and limitation. Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 11 3 out of 3 points Which of the following is not a major goal of Integrative Medicine, as understood by Andrew Weil: Selected Answer: None of the above--these are all major goals of Integrative Medicine. Answers: To refocus on health (as the positive state that the body will tend towards) and healing, rather than on disease (as privation of that state) and treatment. To restore a doctor/patient relationship in which trust has been eroded or even betrayed by the profit motive. To insist that humans are more than physical bodies alone (however one understands that “more”). None of the above--these are all major goals of Integrative Medicine.  Question 12 3 out of 3 points All of the following were characteristic of the Hippocratic approach except for : Selected Answer: Advocacy of a one-size-fits-all approach to physiology, instead of an individualized approach to treatment

 Question 21 3 out of 3 points In order to recognize ruins as ruins and not just a pile of stones, you need to have some idea of the structure (the building) that is missing. Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 22 3 out of 3 points Andrew Weil described his own brand of medicine as "conservative" (in his address, for example, to a Charlotte, NC audience). Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 23 3 out of 3 points A “discursive" definition identifies what kind of thing something is, the category it belongs to, along with what makes it different from other category members. Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 24 3 out of 3 points One method of defining a subject proceeds by making reference to who knows the subject, to the expert on the matter (for example: a subatomic particle is something that a theoretical physicist or an astrophysicist studies.) Selected Answer: True Answers: True Fals e  Question 25 0 out of 3 points A historical essay on health is primarily concerned with what health is (and is not ), while a philosophical essay on health is primarily concerned with what health has been said to be.