Chapter 4: Influence of Cultural and Health Belief Systems on Health Care Practices
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What does a paradigm encompass?

  • Assumptions, premises, and linkages (correct)
  • Common beliefs and practices
  • Historical events and mysteries
  • Scientific experiments
  • Why do paradigms change according to the text?

  • When assumptions are proven incorrect
  • When new phenomena are discovered
  • When human imagination is exhausted
  • When their explanatory power is exhausted (correct)
  • How do nurses often perceive the cultural symbols they use?

  • As universally understood (correct)
  • As exclusive to the nursing profession
  • As irrelevant in healthcare contexts
  • As requiring reinterpretation
  • What constitutes a worldview in a group of people?

    <p>Total configuration of beliefs and practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In what way do members of a culture share a worldview according to the text?

    <p>Without necessarily recognizing it</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where do theories of health and disease causation typically originate from?

    <p>Prevailing worldview of a group</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the magico-religious paradigm involve?

    <p>Controlling natural forces for and against others</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Ackernecht (1971), why do magic and religion satisfy mankind's needs?

    <p>They integrate and harmonize individuals</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is disease viewed in the magico-religious paradigm?

    <p>As caused by supernatural forces</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Clements (1932), what are the categories believed to be responsible for illness in the magico-religious paradigm?

    <p>Sorcery, breach of taboo, intrusion of a disease object, intrusion of a disease-causing spirit, and loss of soul</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which belief category is often associated with soul loss and breaking social norms like adultery?

    <p>Loss of soul</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do West Indians, Africans, and African Americans believe causes many conditions according to the text?

    <p>Malevolence of sorcerers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a common way that people express cultural meanings and belief systems?

    <p>Through metaphors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which characteristic is highlighted as one of the basic features of humanity in the text?

    <p>The use of symbols</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What emerges from the explanations that people have developed to understand natural phenomena?

    <p>A common belief system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of imagery is NOT mentioned as part of the explanations that groups of people develop about nature?

    <p>Mathematical imagery</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which phrase expresses a metaphor connecting human deception with a spider's web?

    <p>'What a tangled web we weave'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a common way people think about and explain life's events according to the text?

    <p>Through metaphors</p> Signup and view all the answers

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