Chapter Three Summary Slater introduces chapter three with telling us that David Rosenhan was greatly ill towards the end of his life. Slater later tells us that Rosenhan and eight of his friends fake they’re way into different mental hospitals just by saying “I’m hearing things”. In fact, Slater wanted to see how the psychiatrist can see the sane from insane. Later, Robert Spitzer gave Rosenhan rude criticism about his experiment.
Nicholas Carr introduces his opinion of automation through an example of the overused system of autopilots during an airline flight and questions our growing dependence to technology that is gradually beginning to complete task that we can do for ourselves. Carr moves on to reminisces back to his high school driving lessons, his experiences from driving automatic stick shift to manual stick shift and expresses his joy of being able to be in control of his own vehicle. He then focuses on the self – driving Google car that can effortlessly tours around the California and Nevada area, reporting that an accident did occur but was a manual drivers fault. Over the course of the chapter, he presents us with different scenarios of how technology plays
In chapter 16 Henry Petroski talks about the horrible present situation of today’s road building industry. Henry indicates, the essence of flocculants outside its defeat garrulous among them, that is the current situation of road building industry. First Henry gives us some typical examples of fraud and abuse within and outside government. Recently, in North Carolina, an executive road paving company guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the US Transportation department and also conspiracy to laundry money. This case involves thirty-seven federal construction contractors.
1) Isaac Hourwich’s purpose in writing this book is to oppose the claims of the Immigration Commission as there are also many stereotypes of Immigrants created by Native born Americans and also challenge the findings of the Immigration Commission. Hourwich uses his economic aspects to explain that Immigrants do not cause the labor market to decline, decreases wages, and increase unemployment in the United States. Most of the native-born Americans fear that as the rate of Immigration increases, it might hurt the American wage-earners. Therefore, there is an assumption that most American workers made was that “undesirable” Immigrants should be out of the country and keep the American workers busy. (82)
Victor Rios begins chapter six by describing the way the Latino boys he studied used masculinity as a rehabilitative tool. He describes how the boys are constantly “questioning” each other’s manhood as a way of proving their own masculinity. “The boys’ social relations with one another and with community members were saturated with expressions and discourses of manhood” (pg.125). Rios continues to describe the affects criminalization and its gendered practices has influenced these young boy’s mentality of what it means to be masculine. In chapter six, the author explains that although the boys had easy access to weapons, they rarely used them because of their clear understanding the consequences associated with such violence.
In the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was mentioned. Throughout Henrietta’s time of being sick with cervical cancer, she was not told she had the disease. Scientists took samples of Henrietta’s cells and brought them to the prestigious Tuskegee Institute for further study (Skloot pg. 23). It was at this same institute that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was performed.
Over and over again it was clearly pointed out that Henrietta was a women who was black. This then led people to believe because of her race she did not matter. I believe Skloot saw racism as a problem but did not express this as much as she did other reasons in the book. Race was shown as a problem in several different
This chapter reviews the long-term effect the experiment had on the African American population. Specifically, it discusses the effects the experiment has on the relationships between black and the American population and health care professionals. After the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, the African American population became very critical of health care professionals, therefore, they ignored the warnings given about the prevention and epidemic of AIDS. If it was not for the experiment that rightfully made black individuals not trust health care professional the rate of AIDS would have been lower, and less people would have been infected. Overall, the chapter goes to show that it is important for health care professional to be honest and transparent with patients and the population, so that a strong relationship can be formed so that there can be advances in health
Chapter 14 can be summarized as describing the reasons why a prosecutor decides to prosecute. The author goes into detail describing the main reasons why prosecutors charge a suspect. Prosecutors are expected to hand out a certain number of plea deals by doing this they less cases head to trail. Police officers play a major role in the prosecutor’s decision to prosecute.
SUMMARY This chapter is written by the author, Mike Bunn. Through this chapter, he clarifies to the reader how to read like a writer. The chapter starts with his introduction like he was a former student of a college and always read a lot. So, he explained everything what he experienced and learned in his college life.
Misunderstanding regarding the details of the Tuskegee syphilis study is common, but the historical accuracy is not as relevant as the strength of the beliefs that formed as a result of the study7. Gamble (1997) argues that roots of the fear of medical exploitation dates further back in history when, the bodies of Black people in Baltimore were taken from their graves for dissection in the 1830s,three female slaves were subjected to an estimated 30 gynecological surgeries each in Alabama in the late 1840s, and folklore describing night riders who kidnapped Black people for use in medical experiments in
Miss Evers' Boys Ethics Paper. The Tuskegee Syphilis research, which started in the 1930s, was an unethical prospective research that focused on the disparities between white and black males. In order to test the impact of untreated syphilis, black men and their families were mistreated in this study. One of the worst injustices in American history, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study involved volunteers who knew very little about the illness or the study.
The USPS did not inform the participants about the reality of the experiment, and the subjects believed that they were treated for “bad blood,” another term for syphilis. Difficulties arose in finding the subjects to participate in the experiment because the overall rate of syphilis was below the expected thirty five percent. The subjects only agreed to participate because the physicians promised them free care, but the Tuskegee Study was not about treatment since USPHS did not test any new drugs nor improve the efficacy of the old treatment. It was aimed at collecting data on the evolution of syphilis at different stages on black males. Physicians performed a series of tests and medical examination on the subjects and called for blood testing intermittently to supplement the information from clinical examinations.
In the Chapter One, Henry A. Rosso cites Hank’s explanation of the “fundraising is the servant of philanthropy” that “It is justified when it is used as a responsible invitation guiding contributors to make the kind of gift that will meet their own special needs and add greater meaning to their lives” (p.5). Also, Hank’s said “Fundraising is not an end in itself” (p.4). A fundraiser has to figure out the organization’s mission and design a fundraising mission. Next, the fundraiser can reach the correct potential donors and help them to donate the gift efficiently. An excellent fundraising can fulfill the organization’s mission; meanwhile, it may lead the donors to make a wisely decision.
The Tuskegee study of Untreated Syphilis began in 1932, mainly designed to determine the history of untreated latent syphilis on 600 African American men in Tuskegee, Alabama. 201 out of 600 men were non-syphilitic just unknowingly involved in the study as a control group This study is known to be “the most infamous biomedical research study in the U.S history”. Most of these men had never visited a doctor and they had no idea what illness they had. All of the men agreed to be a participant thinking they were being treated for “bad blood” and plus they were given free medical care and meals.
