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A couple of other thoughts: (1) Frances Burney wrote an account of her mastectomy. It strikes me that a student could think about ways that those who became ill responded & indeed who could respond in written form. My son is this week writing a short paper in his psychology class about how illnesses are represented in the media. I looked at some anti-smoking videos for the first time ever. There's a parallel that might interest your student: what personal traits & what media allow someone to record responses to cancer. (2) Chandos Brown's superb biography of Benjamin Silliman is almost certainly way too much for a community college student writing a research paper in one term. But I wonder if you could direct the students to the pages that describe how Silliman chose a career in the sciences &, later, medicine. The factors that led him on that path were vastly different from what students would expect today, thus instructive. John Saillant Western Michigan University --
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