Quiz will consist of 5 short-answer questions chosen from the following list.
(If asked on the quiz about the book presentations, you must choose to answer the question that does NOT refer to the book you read for this project.)
1. Identify and explain the significance of the Metropolitan Board of Health.
2. Why did slaveowners want to be informed when slaves were ill, and why did slaves often try to hide their illnesses?
3. Who were the sanitarians and what did they contribute to public health ideas?
4. What is the major difference between Progressive public health reformers and the sanitarians?
5. What is eugenics and how is it connected to the history of public health?
6. Describe the responsibilities of the Public Health Service and briefly trace its development since 1902. (Extra credit if you can tell me what role the PHS played in "And the Band Played On.")
7. Why did Progressive era public health officials think it necessary to isolate Mary Mallon for almost two decades?
8. How did smoking get to be defined as a major health risk?
9. How did Stephen Jay Gould explain Carrie Buck's sterilization?
10. Identify and explain the significance of the phrase "lives not worth living."
11. Identify and explain the relationship between Buck v. Bell and Poe v. Lynchburg.
12. What role did physicians play in the development of Nazi racial hygiene legislation?
13. Why does Allan Brandt think that the discovery of a vaccine will not immediately end the AIDS epidemic?
14. What was "bad blood" and how did public health officials use this phrase during the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?
15. Identify and explain the significance of states-rights medicine?