Chapter 3 Cultural and Pharmacogenetic Considerations

Question 1

ethnopharmacology

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study of drug responses that may be unique to an individual owning to social cultural and biolgic phenomena

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pharmacogenetics

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incorporates variations of a predicted response to a drug due to genetic factors

Question 3

sets of learned behavior and ideas that humans acquire as a community

Answer 3

culture

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community

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cluster of individuals who function as a group to attain cultural universals

Question 5

designed to meet the communitys survival needs and common goals to maintain the group

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cultural universals

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traditional health practices

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teas, herbs, spices, ointments

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when a less powerful group changes its ways to blend in with dominant culture group

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assimilation

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acculturation

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group adjusts to living within a dominant culture while at the same time maintaining its original identity

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complementary health practices

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combine traditional beliefs and mainstream health practices

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when dominant group adopts health practices from non dominant groups

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alternative health practices

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genomes

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complete set of chromosomes, make up cells DNA

Question 12

DNA variants that occur within a specific population greater than 1%

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polymorphisms

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substrate

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substance that binds to and is metabolized by one or more enzymes