Think about what insights it offers regarding dominant social practices of illness & dying in our culture and also alternatives to those dominant practices.
Identify the book you're reading with full bibliographic information (author, title, publisher, year published).
Please write a précis of a section you identify in the second 1/3rd of the book (a particular chapter, a range of pages, a couple chapters).
Please quote 3-5 particularly insightful, arresting, or thought-provoking passages in the middle chunk of the book (provide page numbers). For each quote provide either a paraphrase or response.
Finally please write a paragraph discussing your thoughts and experiences in relation to this book's portrayal (in the middle 1/3rd) of how people go about being sick and dying. Aim for bright, insightful, slicing prose.
Due Friday, Dec. 17 at 8:30am.
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