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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