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Assignment:

Answer fully using the text Lissa: lissa a story about medical promise friendship and revolution

1) How are bodies and body parts being commodified in both the American and Egyptian medical systems within this text? Find one example for each and explain what makes these parts commodities. In a lecture this week, we reviewed how some scholars see these "fragments" of the body as symbolically charged gifts, embedded in social relations, circulating through mechanisms of reciprocity. Others see these commodities as "goods produced under the alienating conditions of capitalism." Connect your examples to these different--but related--theories. Why do you think it's important to understand the ways in which body parts are socially embedded? Why is it also important to understand how and why alienation occurs in these processes of commodification?

2) What do you think might be the advantages of a graphic novel in telling a story about health and politics?

3) Describe one key idea or concept that you took away from completing the reading.

4) Place Matters. What health threats does Gwai face that are beyond his individual control? How do neighborhood conditions, his job and income situation and being an immigrant affect his ability to keep his children out of harm's way? How might all of this affect Gwai's stress level? What options would make things better for Gwai's family and others? Connect Gwai's situation to Baba's in Lissa.