Phil-3375-71 Test One
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Question 1
0 out of 3 points
The Hippocratic corpus is a collection of medical
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Evaluation Method
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Exact Match
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Question 2
3 out of 3 points
My son asks "what's a basketball player?" and I respond by pointing out LeBron James, one of
the greatest all-around players who has ever lived. What method of defining am I using?
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Ostensive Definition
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Discursive Definition
Ostensive Definition
Definition by Analogy
None of the above
Question 3
0 out of 3 points
When Andrew Weil tells us that health is like a balanced scale or a blossoming well-tended rose
bush, what sort of definition is he employing?
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Definition by Expert (i.e. Definition with respect to who knows or studies the
thing)
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Discursive Definition
Ostensive Definition
Definition by Analogy
Definition by Expert (i.e. Definition with respect to who knows or studies the
thing)
Question 4
0 out of 3 points
The emptiness of a cup of coffee is an example of a contrary.
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True
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True
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Question 5
3 out of 3 points
A privation does not
necessarily require
the positive state it is a lack of to have ever existed
(historically) in the past or to exist (historically) in the future.
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True
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True
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Question 6
3 out of 3 points
The so-called "Father of Western Medicine" was:
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None of the above
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Aristotle
Andrew Weil
William Harvey
None of the above
Question 7
3 out of 3 points
Traditionally, the Hippocratic Oath is said to begin as follows: "First, do no harm."
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True
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True
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Question 8
3 out of 3 points
A privation is lack or absence of something.
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True
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True
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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).
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True
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True
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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.
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True
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True
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Question 11
3 out of 3 points
Which of the following is
not
a major goal of Integrative Medicine, as understood by Andrew
Weil:
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None of the above--these are
all
major goals of Integrative Medicine.
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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
:
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Advocacy of a one-size-fits-all approach to physiology, instead of an
individualized approach to treatment
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