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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is intubation?

2. How does Konner characterize surgeons' personalities?

3. What medical term does Konner use to describe his book?

4. What behavior of John Williams' embarrassed Konner?

5. What did the surgeon order Konner to get rid of because it would be useless?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Konner contrast American medical diagnoses to African children's lives?

2. What are Konner's feelings about surgery?

3. How would you describe Konner's tone and language in the opening anecdote?

4. How does Konner describe Gerald Edwards' brain surgery?

5. What was Konner's experience with shock therapy?

6. How does Konner say med school affected him personally?

7. How does Konner characterize Howard Cullen's condition?

8. What was Edwards' condition after surgery?

9. What explanation does Konner give for why he wrote this book?

10. Describe Konner's first neurological examination.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Konner balance scientific medicine against humanitarian interest in his experience as a medical student? How does his balance differ from or resemble the balance other medical students strike?

Essay Topic 2

Does Konner gain or lose authority by not practicing medicine, and by returning instead to anthropology? What specifically does he gain, as he criticizes and portrays the medical system? What specifically does he lose by not practicing?

Essay Topic 3

Konner's book was published in 1987, before a lot of 'gene therapies' were explored and developed. How do you think Konner would respond to the new science of genetics, which tries to explain human behavior through genetic analysis?

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