VAMP

That was really easy.  Let's do it again. Somebody comment with the answers for the last entry and/or this one.

Knowledge/Comprehension questions:  (I added the word knowledge because it is the lowest level of thinking.  Questions at this level are "right there" answers.  You don't have to do much thinking about them.  They are "prove you read it" sorts of questions and answers.

Can I interrupt for a minute, though, to ask if anyone remembers the quantity of drugs that Carla was facing in her therapy?  I mean, VAMP?  Four drugs? Big deal, right?  So, we have to remember what the scientists were thinking at this point in time.  For most, it was " a terrifying notion, an abomination" (143).

Okay...questions....

1.  Explain the life and death parallel between the NCI and the children who were treated with VAMP.

Another interruption....but Mukherjee kind of interrupts too to give give us a definition of failure by way of comparison to the definition of success.  And that, my AP Langers, is craftsmanship.

2.  What is the reason that the VAMP kids return to Frei and Freireich?

Did you notice that Mukherjee circled ALL THE WAY back to Virchow in this section to lead into Frei and Freireich's discovery in the spinal fluid?

3.  What does Mukherjee mean when he says that the children were "felled by virtue of the adaptation designed to protect them?"  That one is a little more of a thinking question.

Another interruption: take a moment to admire the first paragraph on page 148.

4.  Here's a tricky question.  Identify the type of research that Mukherjee conducts during his trip to Maine.

Circle Back:  Atossa, Chiribaya mummy.  Beautiful move.

The cry of Sidney Farber:  "MORE! MORE! MORE!"  He's moving on to tumors. 

I kindof get the sense at the end of this section and as the next one begins that Mukherjee knows we need some narrative.  We've had a lot of medicine.  We need some human interest stories.  Enter Ben Orman.