1) How do the lives of Jim Taylor, Tondra Young, Corey Anderson, and Mary Turner exemplify concepts like the wealth-health gradient and the importance of power and control? What does comparing data maps of disease rates in the different Louisville council districts reveal? What might explain observed differences?
2) Professor Leonard Syme defines control of destiny as the "ability to influence the events that impinge on your life." Why is this ability an important factor for health?
o What stories from Corey Anderson's life exemplify a high demand/low control job and stressful home situation?
o What stories from Jim Taylor's life illustrate how wealth, power and status translate into better health?
3) What did the Macaque monkey research teach primatologist Carol Shively about the connection between power, subordination and health? What parallels can we draw to human society?