SY215 Chapter 8 Question and
answers already passed 2025/2026
allopathic medicine - correct answer ✔The prevailing modern form of healing whereby the method of
treating a disease is to produce a condition of the boy different from, opposite to or incompatible with,
the condition essential to the disease
Homeopathic medicine - correct answer ✔Alternative types of medicine that are administered in
minute quantities to stimulate natural body healing systems.
Epidemology - correct answer ✔The study of the causes and distribution of diseases
latrogenic - correct answer ✔A disease and death resulting from any therapeutic or medical treatment.
Medicalization - correct answer ✔a process whereby more and more of everyday life has come under
medical dominion, influence and control.
Demedicalization - correct answer ✔The process by which a behavior or condition, once labeled "sick",
becomes defined as natural or normal
Evidence-based medicine - correct answer ✔Using statistical and other evaluative meta-
analyses/techniques from scientific research and applying it to everyday medical practices
Technological imperative - correct answer ✔The power of technologies philosophy that implies
technology are inevitable and essential so they must be developed and accepted for the good of society
Disease-mongering - correct answer ✔The corporate construction of new diseases for the sole purpose
of business profits
answers already passed 2025/2026
allopathic medicine - correct answer ✔The prevailing modern form of healing whereby the method of
treating a disease is to produce a condition of the boy different from, opposite to or incompatible with,
the condition essential to the disease
Homeopathic medicine - correct answer ✔Alternative types of medicine that are administered in
minute quantities to stimulate natural body healing systems.
Epidemology - correct answer ✔The study of the causes and distribution of diseases
latrogenic - correct answer ✔A disease and death resulting from any therapeutic or medical treatment.
Medicalization - correct answer ✔a process whereby more and more of everyday life has come under
medical dominion, influence and control.
Demedicalization - correct answer ✔The process by which a behavior or condition, once labeled "sick",
becomes defined as natural or normal
Evidence-based medicine - correct answer ✔Using statistical and other evaluative meta-
analyses/techniques from scientific research and applying it to everyday medical practices
Technological imperative - correct answer ✔The power of technologies philosophy that implies
technology are inevitable and essential so they must be developed and accepted for the good of society
Disease-mongering - correct answer ✔The corporate construction of new diseases for the sole purpose
of business profits
