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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 the title of Chapter 8 in the book?

2. What is the title of Chapter 11?

3. What is the title of Chapter 7?

4. The author claims in the Epilogue, “I will not allow a specialist to decide” what?

5. What refers to a DNA molecule that is separate from and can replicate independently of the chromosomal DNA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems and diseases are associated with those infected with AIDS, according to the author in Chapter 9?

2. How does the author describe the development of HIV and AIDS knowledge in the medical community in Chapter 8?

3. What article by Percival Pott is described in Chapter 10? What does Dr. Nuland conclude regarding the article?

4. What does the author relate regarding one’s quality of life in the Epilogue?

5. How do accidents, suicide, and euthanasia differ from other causes of death, according to the author in Chapter 7?

6. What does the author state regarding dignity in death in the Epilogue?

7. What case study does the author cite in discussing AIDS and HIV in the beginning of Chapter 8?

8. How much money goes into the study of HIV, according to the author in Chapter 8? What have been the results of those studies?

9. What is stated regarding the statistics of suicide in Chapter 7?

10. What does the author caution the reader against in Chapter 12? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization. How is “death” defined by each of these organizations? How must death be accounted for? Why does Dr. Nuland refer to death as having been turned into a bureaucracy?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the impact of the electrocardiogram on modern medicine and treatment. What developments have been made in the past 20 years? What other tests are commonly used today to detect heart muscle damage? How effective are each of these diagnostic tests?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the symptoms, progression, and prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease. What are the first signs of the disease’s onset? How does the progression eventually lead to the death of the patient? What causes Alzheimer's disease?

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