PLEASE FOLLOW THE INSTUCTIONS. BONUS MAY BE APPLIED IF SATISFIED.
**Use resources provided to support the essays. (No need to use all of them but be sure to use at least one for each question)
**Answer EVERY questions in one prompt.
**Be ACCURATE (information should be correct)
**Even though 350 words seems not too much but make sure to address every important point and be informative (as much as you can)
**Get deep.
Please answer four of the following questions in 350 words each:
1. What is the Body Mass Index (BMI)? What are its strengths and weaknesses as a measure?
2. Who are “merchants of doubt” according to Oreskes and Conway (2011), and what sorts of tactics do they employ? Draw on at least one example from health research and policy.
3. What is medicalization? Describe one example of medicalization or demedicalization.
4. Briefly describe what Horwitz (2002) calls asylum psychiatry, dynamic psychiatry, and diagnostic psychiatry. What did diagnostic psychiatry inherit and reject from the other two?
5. According to Acker (2007), what does it mean to say that an illicit drug has found a niche? Briefly describe one example.
6. What did March of Dimes do in their campaign against Polio? What are their key legacies?
7. What is social network analysis? How can it help us understand health and illness?
8. Why have some communities in the US lost herd immunity against measles?
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