The Cancer Cluster Myth Gawande Analysis

Even though people cannot do much, we can all take part in taking responsibility in improving the environment. Ehrlich’s writing urges people to do things that can slow down global warming effects and prevent more harm to ecosystem by showing readers glacier that melt in fast rate due to increased industrialism by humans. Gawande’s article helps me to understand that pollution not only can damage the earth, but pollutions can have direct effects on humans as well. He’s article of “The Cancer Cluster Myth”, implied impact of contamination (Both in water and on ground), and toxic waste on cancer cluster effect in some communities. Saukko’s essay shows us many ways the planet can get poisoned; her essay helps readers to think about what we can …show more content…
He thinks it is frustrating when public health investigators cannot find the reasons of these cancer clusters. Gawande concerned with ethics, but second half of his writing focused on whether investigations of residential and occupational cancer clusters were practical. Gawande shows the ethical point of view for the community, then he switch to investigational side of view. He provides both community and investigational side for reader to understand both of their situations. Close by the end of Gawande’s essay, his writing indicated his view on residential investigation on cancer clusters as futile and impractical. Gawande gave example that Minnesota Department of Health was effective with public response apparatus through sympathy without the need of cancer cluster investigations for 3 years. Gawande let reader to understand both residential and investigation aspects of view, then later he focus his essay many investigations of cancer clusters were actually futile and not worth it, despite he 's these investigations were important. Gawande argue in the beginning is not what he argue in the conclusion. Gawande argue about general publics emotional concerns of live in cancer-clustered communities or cancer cluster scare in these communities. He argued with the need for public health investigations in the earlier part of his essay. However, later on as the essays continues, Gawande states some logical side of these investigations and the difficulties of these investigations to tract down cancer cluster reasons. In the end of his essay, Gawande pointed out these cancer cluster investigations were impractical and the need of cooperation between public health officials and residential