Question 1

Write an essay in which you demonstrate that schooling (or lack of it) around the world is linked to (a) level of economic development and (b) national cultural patterns.Include the United States in your comparative analysis.

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Question 2

How does holistic medicine differ from scientific medicine? What are the advantages of each approach?

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Question 3

What is the most common method of HIV transmission in the United States? In the world as a whole?

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Question 4

Discuss the "right to die" debate.How has modern technology created this debate in the first place? What are the arguments for legal euthanasia? What are the arguments against it? Which side do you find more convincing? Why?

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Question 5

What is your view of an ideal educational system in the United States? Describe how schooling would operate in your ideal case.Who would have access to college education? Would intellectual ability or ability to pay matter in the admissions process? Explain your vision.

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Question 6

What is social epidemiology? Answer by sketching patterns of health for the U.S.population, taking account of (a) gender, (b) social class, and (c) race.

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Question 7

Describe the role of community colleges in U.S.higher education.When did community colleges become widespread? Compared to other types of colleges and universities, what benefits do they offer? What special importance do community colleges have for minority populations?

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Question 8

Define euthanasia.What is active euthanasia? What arguments can you make in support of and in opposition to this practice?

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Question 9

Describe the changes that have taken place in the scope of formal education over the course of U.S.history.When was mandatory education universal? When did a majority of people become high school graduates? What is the extent of U.S.educational achievement today?

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Question 10

Briefly explain why feminist theorists claim that scientific medicine can takes sides on important social issues, including gender inequality.

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Question 11

What is socialized medicine? How does it differ from a direct-fee medical care system?

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Question 12

Why, in your opinion, is there a teacher shortage in the United States? Do you think the pay for teachers is adequate? Do you think teachers, on average, are sufficiently trained and motivated? Why do you think we commonly pay teachers so little for what seems to be the very important work of training our daughters and sons?

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Question 13

How does the distribution of eating disorders in the U.S.population help demonstrate the fact that disease is a social as well as a biological phenomenon?

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Question 14

Describe the reasons for the shortage of nurses in the United States.

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Question 15

What do we know about the problem of obesity in the United States that shows this to be a social and cultural issue?

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Question 16

Use the case of eating disorders or obesity as the focus of an essay that explains why health and illness are correctly understood as societal and cultural issues as much as they are medical issues.

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Question 17

Analyze the link between health and economic development.Describe patterns of health in low-income countries.What are the most common diseases and causes of death? How do such patterns differ in high-income nations?

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Question 18

Why is cigarette smoking considered the leading preventable cause of death in the United States? Describe the health consequences of smoking cigarettes.Using the sociological perspective, explain what categories of people are most and least likely to smoke.Has the smoking hazard always been recognized? Why, in your opinion, is cigarette smoking still common, especially among college students?

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Question 19

Applying the social-conflict approach, what are the problems in the U.S.educational system? Consider quality of public schooling, inequality among schools, and access to higher education.Consider class, gender, race, and ethnicity in your essay.

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Question 20

What is the school choice movement? Why do many people support this initiative? Why do many others oppose it? Present your own views on this debate, providing evidence to support your arguments and conclusions.

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Quiz 14: Education, Health, and Medicine