From e62d28e0ccf56c7e1271cc3625d2474a1cc699d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 12:09:31 -0400 Subject: finished gmap quiz 2 It includes groff stuff, so be wary. --- markley/19_gmap_quiz2 | 103 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 103 insertions(+) create mode 100644 markley/19_gmap_quiz2 (limited to 'markley') diff --git a/markley/19_gmap_quiz2 b/markley/19_gmap_quiz2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b123036 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/19_gmap_quiz2 @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ + + +1. Define overdetermination. + +Overdetermination is when an action or belief is motivated and caused by +several different psychological factors. For example, the instinctual +repellent from smells, tradition about removing smells, and classist +prejudice compounded to make miasma theory. + +2. What is an experimentum crucis? + +An experimentum crucis is the experiment that will ultimately prove a +hypothesis, in this case the waterborne theory, and disprove competing +hypotheses. + +3. What innovation in information design made John Snow’s map better +than other dot maps tracking the cholera outbreak? + +John Snow's map used a Voronoi diagram to diagram the region containing +the points closest, by walking, to the Broad Street pump, where he +expected much higher cholera rates. + +4. What medical objects have been important during the COVID-19 +pandemic? + +Ventilators, masks, and nose swabs have all played important roles +in the pandemic response. + +5. How do new inventions, like the ghost map or the hypodermic needle, +change our understanding of health? Hint: I am not asking you to respond +to individual cases. Please think conceptually about how inventions in +general reshape health. + +A new medical invention changes how doctors or health officials interact +with medicine or understand disease. Each moves the norms around what is +healthy and what health providers' role is, like anaesthetized surgery +making surgery a more careful practice. New inventions change which +treatments are chosen and modify the social ideal of health by, for +example, making masks part of being healthy or developing consciousness +of water supply cleanliness. + +Each new medical invention changes how health officials or doctors +understand and deliver medicine or prevention. + +6. Complete a bibliographic entry for The Ghost Map in MLA format. + +Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map. Riverhead, 2006. + +7. Rewrite these sentences with stronger transitions. + +"The miasma theory of disease was dominant during the Victorian period. +John Snow's waterborne theory of disease transmission gained credibility +after his death. Germ theory was developed at the end of the century. We +know diseases are transmitted by microbes like viruses or bacteria." + +"The miasma theory of disease was dominant during the Victorian period. +A competing idea, John Snow's waterborne theory of disease, was more +accurate but only gained credibility after his death. His theory +preceded germ theory, developed at the end of the century. We now know +germ theory is correct and disease is transmitted by microbes like +viruses or bacteria." + +8. What’s wrong with the following sentence? Hint: It’s more than one +thing. Look for stylistic, grammatical, and citation errors as well as +logical holes in the argument. + +"Thomas Beddoes argued that health can be shaped and reshaped by the +invention of new devices like the ghost map. On the other hand, Edwin +Chadwick believed that 'all smell was disease.' (Johnson pg. 114). So, +when John Snow made his map, it reshaped health. In conclusion, Beddoes +was right." + +The author should be cited as "(Johnson 114)". The "conclusion" isn't +necessary because it repeats that "it reshaped health." The "on the +other hand" is incorrect because Edwin Chadwick's belief doesn't +contradict the previous sentence; "for example" or "specifically" or +nothing at all may be better. + +9. In the 1930s, Broad Street became Broadwick Street. There are two +buildings that remain from the summer of 1854. Name those buildings. + +A pub now named The John Snow and the workhouse (now functioning as a +parking garage) still remain. + +10. How might Johnson’s arguments about consilient thinking (the ability +to move between scales of experience and disciplines) change your +approach to your medical object video? What rhetorical strategies or +tactics would you employ to demonstrate consilient knowledge of your +object? + +In +.ft I +The Ghost Map, +.ft R +Johnson talks about two processes being similar on different scales, +like cholera growth in a city and cholera growth in a small intestine. +This is apparently used by John Snow to overdetermine an argument about +cholera's waterborne nature: the symptoms present in the stomach, the +disease presents in people drinking water from a specific source, and +the water source was contaminated by an index case. In my medical object +video, I will focus more on the commonalities between the domains that +my medical object involves, and I will use the biological explanation as +a common metaphor for the object's uses. -- cgit