IAH 206 Week 2 Short Essay Assignment Description and Prompts

IAH 206 Week 2 Short Essay Assignment Description and Prompts Due: June 25 by 11:59pm (late essays will not be accepted) Length: 500-750 words Value: 25 points* - 5% of your final grade. Required completion to be eligible to pass the course. INSTRUCTIONS Being able to articulate and work with the course ideas is important in understanding the arc of medicine in the United States. While discussion and quizzes help with that, longer answers assist in refining course materials and demonstrate engagement with the topic. Choose ONE of the prompts below to address and write a 500-750 short essay that explores the prompt while making use of course materials and lectures. The essay should use course materials and show critical engagement with the topic. FORMATTING All files must be uploaded as a .doc or .docx. No other file formats will be accepted. In addition, please make sure your file is formatted in the following way: - Font: 12pt, Times New Roman - Spacing: Double-spaced. - Margins: One inch margins on all sides - Citation: MLA - Works Cited Page: Since all the outside material is collected on D2L, you need not have a works cited. However, quotes should be apparent and make use of MLA citation within the document. GRADING While the essay is worth 5% of your course grade, the initial grade will be points based. Toward the end of the semester, I’ll release instructions on how to calculate your final grade. Evaluated essays will include comments that explain the grade the essay earned. Foremost will be the content of the answer, but penalties will accrue for spelling, grammar, construction, formatting, and citation. Roughly, the answers break down with 20 points for the quality of the answer itself and 5 points for the technical parts of the answer (spelling, construction, etc.). RESOURCES As part of your answer, you may use only materials assigned for the class. Remember, that includes lectures as well as the texts. Texts can be from any week of the course. Do not use texts from outside the course to support your answer. PROMPTS for Last Names A-H - Consider the ways in which the “miracle” cures of the 21st century often mirror those of the 19th. Making use of at least two different course sources, write an essay that argues for or against these types of cures. - Examine the ways in which Samuel Thomson and anti-vaccine groups talk about the profession of medicine. Write an essay that takes a stand on this language and makes use of at least two sources from the class. - Look at the figure of the doctor in George Dedlow. Using at least two other class sources (three total) write an argument that argues for the advancement (or not) of the physician over the course of the class. PROMPTS for Last Names I-Z - Write an essay that compares the gendered medical experiences in George Dedlow and the Yellow Wallpaper. Form an argument that uses these two texts to either support or deny the notion that medical experience depends upon gender. - Look at the Water Cure and Prentice Mulford’s method. Write an argument that makes use of these two sources to either support or deny the value in such “cures.” Be sure to consider social aspects as well as medical. - Examine the ways in which race plays a role in both Arkansaw Doctor and the Tuskegee Exam. Write an argument that considers the role of race in medicine. *All points in the class are not created equal. The 25 point value for this assignment takes into consideration the requirements and allows a grade that fairly reflects the quality of the writing along with engagement with the material.

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