I should tell you...as a reader, I had to go back and look up Huggins and Walpole at the end of the last section. Huggins was the "chemical castration" guy and Walpole and Cole were the "estrogen antagonist", tamoxifen, breast cancer scientists. I'm glad I went back because it seems in this section that we are back to chemotherapy and judging from the last line of the last section, it isn't going to be a cheery read.
The reason that I chose this book for our summer is represented in the narrative about Thomas Lynch. No matter what you do: surgeon, insurance claims adjuster, lawyer, administrative assistant, advertising executive, graphic artist, heating and cooling technician, construction worker, stay at home dad; a facility with language is imperative. If you are going to be good at what you choose to do, you need to be able to talk and write to people about what you do, what you want, what you need them to know, what you want them to think, what you want them to do.
A sentence I want you to notice: "Politically, too, AIDS activists borrowed language and tactics from cancer lobbyists, and then imbued this language with their own urgency and potency" (318). Why might I want you to notice that sentence?
If you understand this section, you can discuss the impact that the AIDS epidemic is about to have on chemotherapy.
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