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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034
M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY
SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION – JUNE 2007
SO 3803 - COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE
Date & Time: 25/06/2007 / 9:00 - 12:00
Dept. No.
PART – A
Max. : 100 Marks
(10 x 2 = 20 marks)
Write a short note on the following questions in about 30 words each.
1. Chiropractic approach.
2. Social Etiology.
3. Primitive Medicine.
4. Trephining.
5. Pneumatists.
6. Specific Rate.
7. Incidence Rate.
8. Renaissance Medicine.
9. Eclectics.
10. Disease-object intrusion.
PART – B
(5 x 8 = 40 marks)
Answer any FIVE questions in about 300 words each.
11. Explain the role of medical sociologists in contemporary society.
12. What is epidemiology and how does it differ from clinical medicine?
13. What are the strategies used to prevent communicable disease?
14. Is there a relation between culture and illness? Substantiate.
15. What was the state of medicine and its practice during the medieval period?
16. Write a detailed note on the need for the professionalization of medicine.
17. Briefly explain the issues of gender that arise in explaining the role of nurses.
PART – C
(2 x 20 = 40 marks)
Answer any TWO questions in about 1200 words.
18. Critically evaluate the Azande’s practice of medicine.
19. Write an essay detailing the Greek and Roman practice in medicine.
20. Explain the systems of medicine indigenous to India and give reasons for the
sudden ‘pop’ status to these techniques of healing.
21. Critically evaluate how labelling theory analyses illness behaviour and helps to
account for differences between social settings and types of illness.
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