As medical science advanced,
a. the increase in doctors meant more personalized health care.
b. medical specialization became the norm.
c. the general practitioner lost prestige.
d. both b and c.
Discuss cesarean births and the risks involved. Use your main theories to explain why they have increased in the United States.
Ideal
What will be an ideal response?
Its infant mortality death rate places the United States
a. as the world leader with the lowest death rate.
b. second to Japan.
c. behind only the Scandinavian countries with their low birth rates.
d. twenty-first among nations with over a 5 million population.140 Contemporary Social Problems 6th Edition
The Irish immigrants in America desired to be absorbed into society and did not want to be treated as a separate group. This is an example of __________.
A) militancy
B) assimilation
C) secession
D) pluralism
Technology in the future
a. is certain to result in grater control over our lives.
b. will allow us more freedom and social interaction.
c. has the potential to either increase or decrease freedom.
c. cannot be foreseen.
Psychoanalysis is more effective than drug therapy.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Poverty affects infants in that
a. prenatal malnourishment can result in mental retardation.
b. malnutrition causes brain damage many babies and children.
c. premature births are triple.
d. all of the above.
Health care in the U.S.
a. has a low priority because we spend less than other countries.
b. is unequally distributed among locales and social classes.
c. is covered by a national health insurance program.
d. is far superior to other industrialized nations.
Because she is African American, Karima faces discrimination. This suggests that Karima is a part of a __________.
A) dominant group
B) minority group
C) racial-ethnic group
D) split-labor market
Which of the following is not part of Postmodernism?
a. Objectivity is an important element of understanding.
b. The world is extremely complex and chaotic.
c. Hierarchies of privilege will persist.
d. Real time intimacy is lessening.
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