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Question 6

1. As described in the book Righteous Dopefiend, which of the following men adopted the status of traumatized Vietnam veterans as a way to explain their heroin usage?

	a.	Vernon
	b.	Sonny
	c.	Felix
	d.	Hogan

8 points

Question 7

1. Which of the following programs would Bourgois and Schonberg consider to be an effective harm reduction program?

	a.	A privately owned, for-profit methadone clinic
	b.	incorporating mandatory cultural sensitivity training in medical schools
	c.	A van-based mobile health clinic that makes "house calls" to homeless encampments
	d.	mandatory 12-step programs to treat addiction

8 points

Question 8

1. What method of social science research did Bourgois and Schonberg use in the book, Righteous Dopefiend?

	a.	Document Analysis
	b.	Photo Ethnography
	c.	Quantitative Surveys
	d.	Focus Groups

8 points

Question 9

1. Which of following DID NOT contribute to the problem of homelessness in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s?

	a.	gentrification
	b.	deindustrialization and the decline of the manufacturing sector of the economy
	c.	gutting of the social welfare safety net
	d.	an increase in state-funded psychiatric facilities

8 points

Question 10

1. For several reasons, the authors of Righteous Dopefiend claimed that healthcare initiatives to help heroin users were ineffective? Which of the following was NOT one of those reasons?

	a.	These initiatives impart good scientific, but impractical, knowledge without offering additional resources and structural alternatives.
	b.	The healthcare system framed health as the individualâ s moral responsibility rather than as a social and public issue.
	c.	The public health field suffers from hyper-sanitary bias that clashed with the ways the Edgewater homeless lived their lives.
	d.	Hospitals accepted all Edgewater homeless regardless of their ability to pay or how frequently they visited their facilities.

Answer 1

#6. (b)sonny.

#7. (c) A van-based mobile health clinic that makes "house calls" to homeless encampments.

#8.(b).photo Ethnography.

#9.(d) an increase in state-funded psychiatric facilities.

#10.(c).the public health field suffers from hyper-sanitary bias that clashed with the ways the Edgewater homeless lived their lives.