PHI 240LEC Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Orgasm, Medicalization, Abo Blood Group System
31 May 2018
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Practice Exam #1
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Szasz’s writings about disease suggest that he would be best described as a:
a. normativist about mental disease
b. hybrid theorist about mental disease
c. naturalist about mental disease
d. skeptic about mental disease
2. Szasz believes that most of the conditions which psychiatry describes as mental diseases are:
a. just “problems of living”
b. really neurological diseases
c. best treated with drugs that operate upon abnormal brain structures
d. functional rather than structural defects
3. Reznek believes that the philosophy of medicine can:
a. clarify the boundaries of the concept of disease
b. cure some mental diseases but not physical diseases
c. make philosophy more scientific
d. transform psychiatry from a natural science into a social science
4. Wakefield believes that the disorder/non-disorder distinction can:
a. distinguish disorder from responses to stressful environments
b. distinguish disorder from attempts to control people
c, distinguish disorder from the stigmatization of people
d. all of the above
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Document Summary
Essay question #1: explain the major differences between normativist, naturalist, and hybrid theories of disease. Hint: explain whether each theory maintains that dysfunction is necessary and/or sufficient for disease. Also explain whether each theory holds that disvalue (harm) is necessary and/or sufficient for disease. Use authors from the class as typical representatives of the three different approaches. Essay question #2: explain why wakefield thought szasz had the wrong conception of physical disorder and that the correct account of physical disorder was compatible with the existence of mental disorders. Hint: discuss szasz"s account of disorders (diseases) as lesions or structural abnormalities. Wakefield maintains that dysfunction rather than structural abnormalities is the key to understanding both physical and mental disorder. Essay question #3: explain why kingma maintains that value judgements are involved in boorse"s choice of goals and reference classes. Hint: describe boorse"s account of reference classes and goals and their role in determining what conditions are dysfunctional.
