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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. Where was Dr. O. Carl Simonton a radiologist?

2. In Chapter 7, how many cancer patients were said to be depressed or unsatisfied with their lives?

3. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?

4. In Chapter 8, how many dustinct diseases did researchers assert that cancer was?

5. Who believed that Mansfield became preoccupied with trying to heal her soul and abandoned other treatments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do some researches assert about cancer and a cure?

2. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?

3. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?

4. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?

5. Why was syphilis limited as a metaphor?

6. Before the tubercle bacillus was discovered, what did a standard medical textbook list as the causes of tuberculosis?

7. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?

8. What was Menninger's view of illness, and how does Sontag criticize that view?

9. How were the cancer-prone and the TB-prone persons described in Chapter 5?

10. How did the fantasies about TB in the nineteenth century relate to ideals of capitalist accumulation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the Greeks and Christian view disease? Why did they both believe disease could be divine punishment?

Essay Topic 2

In the mid-eighteenth century tuberculosis was romanticized. Why was TB romanticized? How was it perceived to make people interesting?

Essay Topic 3

Culture and psychology were used to explain illness. How were culture and psychology used to explain illness? What did psychologizing disease seem to provide? What did it seem to undermine?

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