* Where and when was it written? * Who is the author? * Who is it written for? How can you infer the audience? * What is promised in the introduction? * Does the conclusion fulfill the promise? * Who are the texts' friends and enemies? * How are citations used?

* We'll start with this and how to expand on it * Where is it located? * What is the scale - nation, region, city, institution, person? * What is the time of the study? * Is there a comparison? of what?

* to verify something? or challenge a theoretical claim? * What is the main argument? * Is the argument explicit or performed or both? * What evidence is provided for the argument? * How robust is the argument? * On what grounds could it be challenged? * What are the key concepts used? * Are concepts challenged or invented? * How are health, illness and disease used? * Are they defined? * What notion of human nature is assumed or discovered? * Universal or particular?

* Ethnography, interviews, statistics? * If interviews, what questions were asked? * Does it look at what people do, say, or think? * How was the data analyzed? Infer if not explicit. * What assumptions shaped the inquiry? * How were people grouped or categorized? * What core values are assumed? * Especially values of health and illness * What data would strengthen the text?

Then type out a paragraph or two 160-300 words discussing a passage (citing page number) that inspired you or frustrated you, how it did so