“In 2014, an estimated 15,780 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,960 died of the disease.” Cancer caused by many factors, but defined as an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. The question is “How is the cultures Americans are practicing leading to a cause of cancer?” That one statistic stated are only a small proportion of the Americans affected from this disease called cancer and culture can be one of them. The way many Americans practice their culture can cause the disease or cause the disease to become worse with someone who has it already. Cancer is debated all over the U.S. of when a cure will come, how much the cost will be and what can stop cancer cells from ever producing.
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Cancer is taken from such a different perspectives; others will see it as not just a disease, but also something that affects someone over time through identification. An example is “Oh he is the one with cancer”, making it more of a statement and title rather than just a disease. In the Cancer Butch, Sarah.L Jain talks about a woman named Lynn Kohlman and she states (1995), “Cancer has been an unexpected gift that has brought with it dramatic change and transformation… I never believed in my beauty as a model, but here I am, 57 years old, with a double mastectomy, hair fried from radiation, never feeling more beautiful!... I have gone inside out” (Kohlman 1995:14). This really expresses that that person takes cancer on a whole another level and accepts rather than downgrade herself of the complications cancer brings taking in the good side of it rather than the bad. The author Sarah L. Jain is concluding that cancer can be made into something good and it isn’t when you get it, but what you make out of it and the amount of self-esteem it can bring down in women suffering from breast …show more content…
My perspective of cancer shifted as I read Cancer Butch because of the way they seen cancer as like a human being taking away someone’s identity and separating it from one’s gender. Sarah.L Jain emphasizes on how cancer is just a way for industries to make more money by promoting it and describing breast cancer as an “innocent disease”, but meanwhile it isn’t innocent in reality with the amount of deaths in caused in a year toward women. Americans believing cancer may kill you if someone has it, which isn’t necessarily true, but anthropologists seeing it as a way for industries to make more money with promotion and distinguish genders to take away identities. Sarah L. Jain states (2007), “Thus, homophobia joins the list of discriminations, such as age and race that lead to the late of detection of a disease for which only the counternarrative of early detection can provide (could have provided) a cure” (p. 521). Cancer is a discriminated disease rather than when someone is labeled as straight, so when someone is labeled as “homophobe”, age and race can really detect whether that person survives cancer or
Cancer is taken from such a different perspectives; others will see it as not just a disease, but also something that affects someone over time through identification. An example is “Oh he is the one with cancer”, making it more of a statement and title rather than just a disease. In the Cancer Butch, Sarah.L Jain talks about a woman named Lynn Kohlman and she states (1995), “Cancer has been an unexpected gift that has brought with it dramatic change and transformation… I never believed in my beauty as a model, but here I am, 57 years old, with a double mastectomy, hair fried from radiation, never feeling more beautiful!... I have gone inside out” (Kohlman 1995:14). This really expresses that that person takes cancer on a whole another level and accepts rather than downgrade herself of the complications cancer brings taking in the good side of it rather than the bad. The author Sarah L. Jain is concluding that cancer can be made into something good and it isn’t when you get it, but what you make out of it and the amount of self-esteem it can bring down in women suffering from breast …show more content…
My perspective of cancer shifted as I read Cancer Butch because of the way they seen cancer as like a human being taking away someone’s identity and separating it from one’s gender. Sarah.L Jain emphasizes on how cancer is just a way for industries to make more money by promoting it and describing breast cancer as an “innocent disease”, but meanwhile it isn’t innocent in reality with the amount of deaths in caused in a year toward women. Americans believing cancer may kill you if someone has it, which isn’t necessarily true, but anthropologists seeing it as a way for industries to make more money with promotion and distinguish genders to take away identities. Sarah L. Jain states (2007), “Thus, homophobia joins the list of discriminations, such as age and race that lead to the late of detection of a disease for which only the counternarrative of early detection can provide (could have provided) a cure” (p. 521). Cancer is a discriminated disease rather than when someone is labeled as straight, so when someone is labeled as “homophobe”, age and race can really detect whether that person survives cancer or