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Master Degree in Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | AN 585 | Tribhuvan University | 2020 | स्नातकोत्तर डिग्री इन एन्थ्रोपोलोजी | मेडिकल एन्थ्रोपोलोजी

Tribhuvan University
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
OFFICE OF THE DEAN
2020

Master Degree in Anthropology
Course Title: Medical Anthropology
Code No.: AN 585
Semester: III

Full Marks: 60
Pass Marks: 30
Time: 3 hrs.

Candidates are required to answer the questions in their own words as far as possible.


Group A

Attempt any TWO questions (2×15 = 30)

  1. Analyzing the discourse and practice of Traditional Medical Practitioners and Traditional Birth Attendants Stacy L. Pigg presents that “development institutions in Nepal are positioned as authoritative mediators of all local worlds.”How do you see her position? Validate your arguments with appropriate examples.

  2. What do you understand by hospital ethnography? Do you agree with the idea of Van der Geest and Finkler on the debate of whether hospitals are ‘mainland’ or ‘island’ of culture? Why?

  3. Discuss how Scheper-Hughes and Lock define three types of body? Why do they think it is essential for medical anthropologists for such classifications?


Group B

Attempt any THREE questions (3×10 = 30)

  1. Alexander Edmonds portrays that rapid growth in cosmetic surgery among the poor has acquired primacy over the public health programs in Brazil. Discuss what and how such health behavior of poor people has been shaped in neoliberal Brazil.

  2. Through his ethnographic explorations on Vitamin A Programme in Nepal, Ian Harper claims that health development in Nepal has become a mere capsular promise. Discuss, how?

  3. How Michael Foucault has characterized the End of the Eighteenth Century and Nineteenth Century medicine as two major turning points in biomedical history. Validate your arguments with suitable examples.

  4. Write short note on (any TWO):
    a) Disease
    b) Widowhood and Social Suffering
    c) Medical Gaze





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    मानविकी तथा समाजशास्त्र संकाय
    डिनको कार्यालय
    २०२०

    स्नातकोत्तर डिग्री इन एन्थ्रोपोलोजी
    पाठ्यक्रम शीर्षक: मेडिकल एन्थ्रोपोलोजी
    कोड नं.: AN 585
    सेमेस्टर: III

    पूर्ण अंक: ६०
    उत्तीर्ण अंक: ३०
    समय: ३ घण्टा

    उम्मेदवारहरूले सकेसम्म आफ्नै शब्दमा उत्तर दिनुपर्नेछ।


    समूह A

    कुनै दुई प्रश्न Attempt गर्नुहोस् (२×१५ = ३०)

    1. परम्परागत चिकित्सकहरू र परम्परागत धाइआमाहरूको अभ्यास र विमर्शलाई विश्लेषण गर्दै स्टेसी एल. पिगले “नेपालमा विकास संस्थाहरूलाई सबै स्थानीय संसारहरूको आधिकारिक मध्यस्थका रूपमा प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ” भन्छिन्। तपाईं उनको दृष्टिकोणलाई कसरी देख्नुहुन्छ? उपयुक्त उदाहरणसहित आफ्ना तर्कहरू प्रमाणित गर्नुहोस्।

    2. तपाईं अस्पताल इथ्नोग्राफी (hospital ethnography) बाट के बुझ्नुहुन्छ? अस्पतालहरू ‘मुख्य भूभाग’ वा ‘टापु’ जस्तो संस्कृतिको केन्द्र हुन् कि होइनन् भन्ने वान डेर गीस्ट र फिन्कलरको विचारसँग तपाईं सहमत हुनुहुन्छ? किन?

    3. शेपर-ह्युग्स र लकले शरीरका तीन प्रकारलाई कसरी परिभाषित गरेका छन्? चिकित्सा मानवविज्ञानीहरूका लागि यस्तो वर्गीकरण किन आवश्यक ठान्छन्?


    समूह B

    कुनै तीन प्रश्न Attempt गर्नुहोस् (३×१० = ३०)

    1. एलेक्जेन्डर एडमन्ड्सले गरिबहरूबीच सौन्दर्य शल्यक्रियाको तीव्र वृद्धिले ब्राजिलमा सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य कार्यक्रमहरूलाई छायामा पारेको चित्रण गरेका छन्। गरिबहरूको यस्तो स्वास्थ्य व्यवहारलाई नवउदारवादी (neoliberal) ब्राजिलले कसरी आकार दिएको छ, छलफल गर्नुहोस्।

    2. नेपालमा भिटामिन A कार्यक्रम माथिको आफ्नो इथ्नोग्राफिक अध्ययनमार्फत इयान हार्परले नेपालमा स्वास्थ्य विकास केवल क्याप्सुल वाचा (mere capsular promise) बनेको दाबी गरेका छन्। कसरी भन्नेबारे छलफल गर्नुहोस्।

    3. अठारौँ शताब्दीको अन्त्य र उन्नाइसौँ शताब्दीको चिकित्सा इतिहासलाई माइकल फूकोले बायोमेडिकल इतिहासका दुई प्रमुख मोडबिन्दुहरूका रूपमा कसरी चित्रण गरेका छन्? उपयुक्त उदाहरणहरू प्रयोग गरी आफ्नो तर्कलाई प्रमाणित गर्नुहोस्।

    4. छोटकरीमा लेख्नुहोस् (कुनै दुई):
      a) रोग
      b) विधवा अवस्था र सामाजिक पीडा
      c) मेडिकल गेज (Medical Gaze)

 

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