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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)

 

1. Name the concept that talks about unifying or reconciling opposing schools of thought?
2. What is ethnomedicine?
3. Relate culture to personality in the context of medical anthropology.
4. What do anthropologists mean by ‘enlightenment model’?
5. Make your analysis of psychosocial and cultural aspects of health and illness.
6. Explain about folk sector in medical system.
7. Show the underlying unity between body, person and power.
8. Briefly explain about medical anthropology as social network?
9. Demonstrate the dynamics of constructionist approach in medical anthropology.
10. 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)

 

11. Give your critical evaluation of medical anthropology.
12. Patients are cured mostly by self-belief more than medicine. Discuss.
13. How would you apply Antonio Gramsci’s analysis of hegemony to medical anthropology?
14. How do medical systems relate to medical pluralism?
15. Fake Malaria: Understanding of disease in Tanzania. Explain.
16. Patienthood is a social state and not simply a biological one. Discuss.
17. 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)

 

18. Discuss the relationship between cultural values and assumptions and medicine and medical systems.
19. Do you agree that illness representation is culturally constructed? Argue your case in detail by providing examples.
20. Discuss in detail medical systems as main object of medical anthropology.
21. What are the major issues that are involved in medical research? Give examples from India.

 

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    LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY

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FIRST SEMESTER – April 2009

MS 1809 – MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

 

 

 

Date & Time: 05/05/2009 / 9:00 – 12:00  Dept. No.                                                  Max. : 100 Marks

 

 

PART – A

Write a short note on the following in about 30 words each            (10 x 2 = 20 Marks)

 

1. Ethnocentrism
2. Reification
3. Ethnomedicine
4. Syncretism
5. Illness narrative
6. Medical pluralism
7. Aetiology
8. Situated risk
9. Thick description
10. Meaning of medicine.

 

PART – B

Answer any Five questions in about 300 words each                         (5 x 8 = 40 Marks)

 

1. What is structural violence? List out its main characteristics.
2. Outline the different ways in which medical anthropology relates to biomedicine.
3. Explain the anthropological concept of culture.
4. How does rumour act as a tool to deal with uncertainty in the context of medical research?
5. Describe the main characteristics of medical systems.
6. What is the contribution of anthropology of medicine to public health?
7.  Briefly examine how appropriation of non-biomedical medicines into scientific pharmaceutical frame takes place.

 

PART – C

Answer any Two questions in about 1200 words each           (2 x 20 = 40 Marks)

 

1. Examine the four anthropological approaches to the study of illness representations.
2. Critically evaluate the link between culture, person and bodily practice.
3. Examine the distinction between illness and disease and its relevance to understanding how people deal with health and sickness.
4. Examine in detail the challenges of antiretroviral treatment and HIV.

 

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