Midterm

Question 1

List all of the texts.

Answer 1

• Autism Screening Questionnaire
• What can a body do?
• Empathy Exam
• “Whats wrong with me?”
• Cancer made me a shallower person
• When breath becomes air
• “The Chart”
• What the body told
• Atlas of the heart
• “Coded Exposure: Is Visibility A Trap?” from Race After Technology

Question 2

Autism screening questionnaire

Answer 2

• poem

- oliver de la paz

Question 3

What can a body do?

Answer 3

• non-fiction, design theory

- sarah hendren

Question 4

Empathy exams

Answer 4

• essays

- Leslie Jamison

Question 5

“What’s wrong with me?”

Answer 5

• personal essay

- megan Orourke

Question 6

Cancer Made me a shallower person

Answer 6

• graphic novel/memoir

- Miriam Engelberg

Question 7

When breath becomes air

Answer 7

• memoir

- Kalanithi

Question 8

Rafael Campo

Answer 8

• The chart - poem

- What the body told “Ten Patients and another”

Question 9

Atlas of the Heart

Answer 9

• Affect theorist

- brene brown

Question 10

Ruja Benjamin

Answer 10

“Coded Exposure: Is Visibility A Trap?” from Race After Technology (Theorist)

Question 11

Benefits of dialogue

Answer 11

allows for a back and forth, mood/tone revealed, reveals tensions

Question 12

Autism screening questionnaire (topics)

Answer 12

• Style paints division between the parent and the physician
• fairly flat interrogative language of the questionnaire serves to highlight the intense intimacy and arresting sensory detail of De la Paz’s own writing
• a look at how every day, people try to deal with the questionnaires our medical system has come to rely on.
• Pushes against the reductionism
• The reductionism is mind-boggling, just as the world the speaker in the poem creates with his answers is worlds away from the yes/no answers the questionnaire demands. So much information is lost.

Question 13

What can a body do? (topics)

Answer 13

• “built” things demand that body meets world
• helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
• assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”
• design is collaborative, designing for one is designing for all

Question 14

Benefits of essays

Answer 14

• Essay – to try
• Sense of trying out, trying with
• Brilliant form for exploring inner dialogue, inner tensions

Question 15

Empathy exams (topics)

Answer 15

• ironic, honest, searching, emotional
• She is searching for how she feels and another method to show others how she feels
• explores the questions of what empathy is, how it can be best expressed, and when is it appropriate to do so.
• The first essay establishes empathy as an active choice on the part of the empathizer that needs to be voiced in order to be most effectively expressed

Question 16

“What’s wrong with me?” (topics)

Answer 16

• helplessness
• loss of a distinct self
• A diagnosis gives you closure, mentally at ease
• Gives you a particular label that allows other people to understand your pain better
• Repetition and change to the photograph and emphasizes memory awakening joy

Question 17

Cancer Made me a Shallower Person (topic)

Answer 17

• a humorous and enlightening counter-narrative to the upbeat, heroic survivorship trope that is so easily accepted in pink ribbon culture.
• Tension between what she is supposed to be feeling and what affect she is allowed to display
• Burden that affect will impact outcome
• smart, funny, and irreverent while the rough lines, basic colors, and messy drawings simultaneously reflect a deeper message of truth, personal struggle, and limited time

Question 18

When breath becomes air (topics)

Answer 18

• uses language to help us experience what he experiences: fear, awe, wonder shame
• search for meaning, path to becoming
• Continual calling to god
• There is a tension between detachment and intimacy highlighted in these words

Question 19

Rafael Campo (topics)

Answer 19

• Failures of empathy
• World in which individuals who are overlooked are struggling and incredible pain
• Values dignity deeply
• Cultural commentary of the causes of disease illness
• Translating their suffering for us
• Paints the scene of how they are living clearly

Question 20

Atlas of the heart (topics)

Answer 20

• From the clinical point of view the groups of emotions may have a diagnostic benefit
• Make it essential to discuss and recognize these emotions
• weaves in research, science, and story together to help the reader understand their own emotions and the emotional lives of others.
• language shapes our experiences