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.