After reading Lissa : a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution, how would one answer these questions:
1. The biomedical approach to illness tends to conceive the patient as an autonomous individual whose health, body, and decisions are the patient’s responsibility alone. How does Anna and Layla experiences of risk and illness in their families challenges or complicate this ideal of patient autonomy?
2. Why would someone think that Abu Hassan insists that “the body belongs to God”? What does this have to do with the medical treatment decisions he is facing?
3. Online and through social media, Layla learns about revolutionary movements in Egypt, and Anna finds a community of “previvors” in the United States. How did the use of the internet shape their experiences and life choices? In what way does their sense of belonging to online communities mark a generational shift from their parents?
After reading Lissa : a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution, how…
After reading Lissa : a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution, how would one answer these questions:
