Lecture 1: Historical Antecedents 2

Question 1

What is holistic approach?

Answer 1

Instead of focusing on one thing, you focus on the whole picture, the current trend toward privatization

Question 2

In the 20th century, many of the problems could be solved through what approach?

Answer 2

Holistic approach

Question 3

What is preferred over privatization?

Answer 3

Public sector progression

Question 4

Another major trend shaping science

Answer 4

Globalization

Question 5

What is a leading-edge area of science in which the pace of progress is perhaps faster than society’s capacity to deal with the ethical and social implications?

Answer 5

Medical biotechnology

Question 6

What offers major benefits for disease diagnosing?

Answer 6

Genetic research

Question 7

What is a trend toward understanding and explaining human beings and human health largely in terms of genes and their interactions?

Answer 7

Genetification of medicine

Question 8

What is the transformation of goods, services, nature, personal information of people into commodities?

Answer 8

Commodification

Question 9

What is the most basic and is anything intended for exchange object for economic value, according to Arjun Apadurai?

Answer 9

Commodity

Question 10

Most profitable sector in food

Answer 10

Processed food

Question 11

What are low in nutritional values and relatively inexpensive and available at low stores that often do not carry higher quality food like fruits and vegetable?

Answer 11

Processed foods

Question 12

When was the arrival of the Spaniards?

Answer 12

1521

Question 13

Who were highly superstitious?

Answer 13

Pre-colonial Filipinos

Question 14

What remained as the highest institution of learning?

Answer 14

University of Santo Tomas

Question 15

Initially, what were the courses offered in UST?

Answer 15

Theology, philosophy, and humanities

Question 16

What was established in UST during the 18th century?

Answer 16

Faculty of Jurisprudence and Canonical Law

Question 17

When did the school of medicine and pharmacy open?

Answer 17

1871

Question 18

Who submitted a report to the authorities on the conditions at UST’s medical college during the start of the American Regime?

Answer 18

A German physician of Manila

Question 19

What was indicated in the report on UST’s medical college?

Answer 19

The college lacks library facilities and they use outdated books

Question 20

When did the Swiss Canal open?

Answer 20

1869

Question 21

When did the religious orders establish several charity hospitals in the archipelago and also provided the bulk of this public service?

Answer 21

Towards the end of the 16th century

Question 22

Why was there very little development in the Philippine agriculture and industry during the first two centuries of the Spanish rule?

Answer 22

Due to the dependence of the Spanish colonizers on the profits from the Galleon

Question 23

What is the other term for Galleon?

Answer 23

Manila-Acapulco trade

Question 24

Manila-Acapulco trade is also known as

Answer 24

Manila-Galleon

Question 25

Who founded the Manila Observatory?

Answer 25

Jesuits

Question 26

What was promoted by the Jesuits?

Answer 26

Meteorological studies

Question 27

When was the Manila Observatory found?

Answer 27

1865

Question 28

How did the government take steps to establish a secular educational system?

Answer 28

By a decree on October 19, 1898 that created the Universidad Liter aria de Filipinas

Question 29

Universidad Liter aria de Filipinas

Answer 29

A secular state supported institution of higher learning

Question 30

When did science and technology advance rapidly in the Philippines?

Answer 30

During the American regime

Question 31

What satisfied the short-run needs for professionally trained Filipinos in the colonial government’s organization and programs?

Answer 31

Establishment of the University of the Philippines

Question 32

Who were the faculty members of the College of Medicine in UP that held concurrent appointments?

Answer 32

Staff members of the Bureau of Government Laboratories

Question 33

What provided the legal basis of the commonwealth government?

Answer 33

1935 constitution

Question 34

What was considered as the transition government before the granting of the Philippine Independence with American inspired constitution?

Answer 34

Commonwealth government

Question 35

When was the Philippine Commonwealth inaugurated?

Answer 35

September 1935

Question 36

Who was elected as the President of the Commonwealth?

Answer 36

Manuel L. Quezon

Question 37

When was the National Science Development Board (NSDB) reorganized?

Answer 37

1982

Question 38

What was NSDB further reorganized into?

Answer 38

National Science and Technology Authority (NSTA)

Question 39

What were the four research and Development Councils that composed the NSTA?

Answer 39

1. Philippine Council for Agriculture and Resources Research and Development 2. Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research Development 3. Philippine Council for Health Research and Development 4. NRCP (National Research Council of the Philippines)

Question 40

The 1935 constitution was ratified by the Filipino people through a national plebiscite on _______________

Answer 40

May 14, 1935

Question 41

When did the 1935 constitution came into full force?

Answer 41

November 15, 1935

Question 42

The Philippine Trade Act of 1946

Answer 42

An act passed by the United State Congress specifying policy government between the Philippines and the United States

Question 43

What is the loss of valuable human resources?

Answer 43

Brain drain