Chapter sixteen: The body, medicine, health, & health care

Question 1

Health professionals objectify patients, identifying them with certain diseases or issues and do not consider the personal or social problems that the patient is dealing with

Answer 1

Medical gaze

Question 2

Heightened awareness of one’s body and oneself within society, etc.

Answer 2

Reflexivity

Question 3

What is deemed attractive by society, media, peers

Answer 3

Appearance culture

Question 4

Roots in patriarchal, Eurocentric concepts of what is attractive and beautiful

Answer 4

Objectifying gaze

Question 5

Work that is involved in becoming more fit, muscular, healthy, beautiful

Answer 5

Bodily capital

Question 6

Starvation and dehydration for sports

Answer 6

Manorexia

Question 7

Men who have grown up and been socialized into believing the physical male ideal
(ex. G.I. Joe action figure, bodybuilder images)

Answer 7

Bigorexia/Adonis complex

Question 8

Rich can afford medical treatment vs. millions who are underinsured or who have no health insurance

Answer 8

Cadillac health insurance policies

Question 9

Drugs derived from opium, or synthetic

ex. oxycodone, semisynthetic, fentanyl

Answer 9

Opioids

Question 10

Distrust in African American community of the medical system

ex. Tuskegee experiments

Answer 10

Medical racism

Question 11

People from developed countries in the Global North travel to developing countries in the Global South for medical procedures

Answer 11

Medical tourism

Question 12

Not have adequate access to safe and nutritious food

Answer 12

Food insecurity

Question 13

Form of malnutrition involving the inadequate consumption of vital nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, calories

Answer 13

Undernutrition

Question 14

An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food

Answer 14

Food deserts

Question 15

Sociologist with interest in sociology & the body

Answer 15

Michel Foucault