Need discussion questions

[Sheryl]

Read the book in German a few years ago. Recommended it to my book club. Have company from Germany and no time to reread book before tomorrow's club meeting. Does anyone have questions out there that I could use to jog my memory?

[Anita]

What kind of questions? I have no clue what a bookclub talk about...

[Jean]

Question - is the author being critical of the practices/behaviors of the Jewish and Muslim religions, or just stating facts, or writing an interesting story?

This is a question i had as i read. He seemed to focus on the negative or "strange and irrational" behaviors, or so it seemed to this agnostic. Was he being critical or just making an interesting story? I'm alluding to the CRUEL punishments of the Muslims, the dietary practices of the Jews, the prayer practices of both, the gender issues, etc.

[Laura]

I just proposed this on another thread asking for potential questions. Hope it helps:

I think the matter of ethics in medical sciences should be discussed in a book club, when talking about this book. It is very tricky and can be polemic.

Particularly, the gain of essential knowledge, which can save lives of many in the future, by means considered immoral or illegal. In the book, it was dissecting human bodies, but you can compare it with other human experiments, done later in history, which we now obviously consider immoral and illegal. The implications are always debatable.