This section is particularly exciting for a teacher of AP Lang. This is the "slouch" section that I wrote about in an entry towards the beginning of summer. This chapter also marks the beginning of Mukherjee's Lewis Carroll's, Through the Looking Glass allusions. He'll lay them on pretty heavy towards the end. I think I also included some of Lewis Carroll's work about learning in an earlier entry.
Big ideas in this section:
screening trials
Detecting precancerous states as a means of prevention,
mammography and
the pap smear,
false positives,
false negatives,
underdiagnosis and
overdiagnosis.
the irony of small tumors and metastasis
And if you understood some of these big ideas, you understand the outcome of mammography, what it means for women over 50, what it means for those who are younger, and how that relates to bicycle helmets. I have to tell you that none of it sits comfortably in this chair with me and my 46 year old self.
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