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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. Like a mental patient today, what was the TB patient considered to be?
2. In Tommaso Landolfi's science-fiction tale, what did he call a spaceship?
3. When did Samuel Butler write Erewhon?
4. Who did Groddeck say staged the drama of disease?
5. What drug was one of the first generation of cancer drugs?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why was cancer thought to be an inapprorpriate disease for a romantic person in contrast to TB?
2. How was TB different from the great epidemic diseases of the past?
3. In the nineteenth century, what did disease have to do with the will?
4. What did Kant say about passion and cancer?
5. How was disease viewed by the Greek in Chapter 6?
6. Why were nineteenth-century cancer patients believed to get cancer, and what advice might they be given?
7. How did the contrast between passions change according to Sontag in Chapter 6?
8. What two hypotheses does Sontag discuss regarding the expansion of illness?
9. In Chapter 5, what example does Sontag present of how cancer was viewed as a disease that caused a person to finally behave well?
10. What did Katherine Mansfield think made her sick, and how did John Middleton Murry critique her thoughts?
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
Disease metaphors have been used to describe society and politics. How have disease metaphors been used to describe society and politics? What problems are there with using disease metaphors to describe society and politics?
Essay Topic 3
Both TB and cancer were depicted as diseases of passion. Why were TB and cancer both depicted as diseases of passion? How was the passion that led to TB and that led to cancer in opposition? How did the myths about TB and cancer depict both diseases as diseases of passion?
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