LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
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M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
FIRST SEMESTER – November 2008
MS 1809 – MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Date : 13-11-08 Dept. No. Max. : 100 Marks
Time : 1:00 – 4:00
PART – A
Answer ALL the questions in about 30 words each: (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)
- Name the concept that talks about unifying or reconciling opposing schools of thought?
- What is ethnomedicine?
- Relate culture to personality in the context of medical anthropology.
- What do anthropologists mean by ‘enlightenment model’?
- Make your analysis of psychosocial and cultural aspects of health and illness.
- Explain about folk sector in medical system.
- Show the underlying unity between body, person and power.
- Briefly explain about medical anthropology as social network?
- Demonstrate the dynamics of constructionist approach in medical anthropology.
- Does rumour have a role in medical research? Explain.
PART – B
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each: (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
- Give your critical evaluation of medical anthropology.
- Patients are cured mostly by self-belief more than medicine. Discuss.
- How would you apply Antonio Gramsci’s analysis of hegemony to medical anthropology?
- How do medical systems relate to medical pluralism?
- Fake Malaria: Understanding of disease in Tanzania. Explain.
- Patienthood is a social state and not simply a biological one. Discuss.
- Write a note on one of the explanatory models in interpreting sickness and illness.
PART – C
Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words each: (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)
- Discuss the relationship between cultural values and assumptions and medicine and medical systems.
- Do you agree that illness representation is culturally constructed? Argue your case in detail by providing examples.
- Discuss in detail medical systems as main object of medical anthropology.
- What are the major issues that are involved in medical research? Give examples from India.
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