Ancient Medicine Final Exam Ques ons and answers |
Updated RATED A+ | 2026 | NEW
Personal trust
You know the individual's character, habits, values, and abili es. You put trust in the person
Ins tu onal trust
you don't know the individual
you put your trust in the ins tu on and large social structures that creden als or employs the
individual
Medical Marketplace
anthropological term for the therapeu c op ons available to the pa ent
Asclepius
mortal man, then became worshipped as a god
sick worshippers would go sleep in the abaton, the god would come to them in a dream, tell
them what they needed to do to get be!er (incuba on), then the people would dedicate casts
of healed body parts to the god
god, and appears to have learned medicine--gives pharmacological and diete c advice
Technician
has no social power: if they do their job well they act only as an instrument of the doctor who
makes the decision
usually invisible in social rela ons
Medical Anthropology
study of the interac on between the technical knowledge of medicine and its socio-cultural
context
Agonism
struggle for social credibility
(doctors compe ng with others in the medical marketplace)
Mul ple Consulta on
, gathering many doctors together at the bedside to give their individual diagnoses and
corresponding therapies
Nonmaleficience
Obliga on to "do no harm"
Examples of the socio-cultural context
Money
Ins tu ons
Gender
Books
etc
ins tu onal structures in an quity that could financially support a doctor
royal court and individual ci es
what a public physician did
Travel from city to city
Travel to pa ent beside
Gave lectures on medical health
Were paid and rewarded with poli cal rights in new town
Built social rela onships with their clients
ancient criteria used to determine who qualified as a doctor
the tools they used, clinical presence and demeanor, verbal dexterity to impress and hold an
audience
types of healers in the ancient medical marketplace
physicians we've studied
people who claim to be humoral-type physicians but are not trustworthy: quacks, charlatans
folk medicine healers: village wise-people, herbalists, root-cu!ers, midwives
magical healers: sorcerers, magicians, wizards
religious healing: priests, miracles, sleeping in temples
criteria pa ents used to select a healer in the ancient medical marketplace
natural criteria: clinical effec veness, type of illness
social criteria: cost, accessibility, ease of treatment
types of pa ents who visited Asclepius' shrines
Updated RATED A+ | 2026 | NEW
Personal trust
You know the individual's character, habits, values, and abili es. You put trust in the person
Ins tu onal trust
you don't know the individual
you put your trust in the ins tu on and large social structures that creden als or employs the
individual
Medical Marketplace
anthropological term for the therapeu c op ons available to the pa ent
Asclepius
mortal man, then became worshipped as a god
sick worshippers would go sleep in the abaton, the god would come to them in a dream, tell
them what they needed to do to get be!er (incuba on), then the people would dedicate casts
of healed body parts to the god
god, and appears to have learned medicine--gives pharmacological and diete c advice
Technician
has no social power: if they do their job well they act only as an instrument of the doctor who
makes the decision
usually invisible in social rela ons
Medical Anthropology
study of the interac on between the technical knowledge of medicine and its socio-cultural
context
Agonism
struggle for social credibility
(doctors compe ng with others in the medical marketplace)
Mul ple Consulta on
, gathering many doctors together at the bedside to give their individual diagnoses and
corresponding therapies
Nonmaleficience
Obliga on to "do no harm"
Examples of the socio-cultural context
Money
Ins tu ons
Gender
Books
etc
ins tu onal structures in an quity that could financially support a doctor
royal court and individual ci es
what a public physician did
Travel from city to city
Travel to pa ent beside
Gave lectures on medical health
Were paid and rewarded with poli cal rights in new town
Built social rela onships with their clients
ancient criteria used to determine who qualified as a doctor
the tools they used, clinical presence and demeanor, verbal dexterity to impress and hold an
audience
types of healers in the ancient medical marketplace
physicians we've studied
people who claim to be humoral-type physicians but are not trustworthy: quacks, charlatans
folk medicine healers: village wise-people, herbalists, root-cu!ers, midwives
magical healers: sorcerers, magicians, wizards
religious healing: priests, miracles, sleeping in temples
criteria pa ents used to select a healer in the ancient medical marketplace
natural criteria: clinical effec veness, type of illness
social criteria: cost, accessibility, ease of treatment
types of pa ents who visited Asclepius' shrines
