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Medicine Man
Name _________________________
Date ______________
Per ____
Directions: Answer the following questions as you view the
movie.
VOCABULARY
a. Dr. Robert Campbell (Sean Connery)- scientist who believes
he has found a cure for lymphoma & other cancers.
b. Dr. Rae Crane (Lorraine Brocco)- scientist sent to assist
Dr. Campbell.
c. Lymphoma - a cancerous tumor of the lymphatic tissue.
d. Bromeliad - epiphytic tropical rain forest plants.
e. Epiphytes - plants which grow on other plants, and
get their moisture from the air & rain.
f. Juju - medicine.
g. Juju kit - medicine bag.
h. Stick - self respect.
i. Depsewa - medicine man
j. Spiky Candiru - Amazon fish attracted to urine. This fish
will enter the urethra or any other orifice (an opening in
the body.
1. What is your first impression of Dr. Rae Crane (the female)?
2. What is her purpose for going into the rainforest?
3. What is your first impression of Dr. Robert Campbell?
4. Dr. Campbell insists that Dr. Crane wear a surgical mask when
she is around the natives. Why?
5. What is Dr. Campbell analyzing?
6. What disease did the native woman have?
7. What happened when Dr. Campbell injected her with the
substance he extracted from the bromeliad plants?
8. What are the guinea pigs infected with & why?
9. What happens to the guinea pig with lymphoma after being
injected with the bromeliad extract?
10. What is Dr. Campbell looking for in the Brazilian tropical
rain forest?
11. Name of the group of plants that seem to contain the
chemical Dr. Campbell is looking for.
12. Why don't the natives in the area get cancer?
Environmental Science
Medicine Man
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Name _________________________
Date ______________
Per ____
Directions: Answer the following questions as you view the
movie.
13. Why do the natives call Dr. Campbell "depsewa" or
medicine man?
14. Nine million aboriginal natives lived in South America &
now there are about 1/4 million left. What happened to
them?
15. What has happened to the level of the river & the amount
of rain in the area in the movie? Why is this
happening?
16. Only Dr. Campbell's first bromeliad extract sample
contains compound #37, the 8 other samples do not. How
do the 2 scientists explain this?
17. What does Dr. Crane find & wash off of her bromeliad?
18. What is making the little native boy sick?
19. What does the native medicine man tell Dr. Campbell
about the bromeliad plants & their medicine?
20. How will the building of the road affect Dr.Campbell's
research?
21. What does Dr.Campbell find in the sugar bowl?
22. What do Drs. Campbell & Crane now realize?
Summarize what the movie was about, what was the message being
discussed in the movie. Your response should include enough
information to fill the space provided, with a 5 sentence
minimum.
Use the information from the movie & your knowledge of the
scientific method to complete the following.
a.
Dr. Campbell's observation.
b.
Dr. Campbell states the problem as
c. Dr. Campbell collects information by
d. Dr. Campbell's hypothesis is
e. Dr. Campbell's experiment
f. Dr. Crane's analysis of the experimental data
g. Dr. Campbell's conclusion
h. Dr. Campbell & Crane repeat the experiment