Wounded and Presumed Dead: Dying of Breast Cancer in Early America

Wounded and Presumed Dead : Dying of Breast Cancer in Early America

Introduction

American Experiences (7th edition ) by Randy Roberts and James S . Olson primarily focuses on how its people act against America . It shows how people deal , bended and resisted in contrary to their nation . The readings look at every person on how their carried their work , how they perform their play , revolutionized and loved , subsist and died . It is the story of American people . It illustrates every single action or steps on how a person acts

Critique

One of

the reading articles I am interested with is about the Wounded and Presumed Dead : Dying of Breast Cancer . I have searched for the past accounts in early America during any interval up to 1950 about the women 's incident of breast cancer . In the article , the author cited many persons , for example the Adam 's family , who suffered from the disease Although there 's an actual occurrence of the disease which have swelled over the past two decades , it still very hard to find confirmations on how women deal with breast cancer . In contemporary times , it is difficult to find out how a woman suffers from the disease , how do they cope and how do they survive , if ever . Coded materials are hard to locate recognizing breast cancer on a person . In addition , there 's no concrete evidence showing that a person really died from the breast cancer alone because of people on that time suffered also from different kind of cancer not only breast cancer . Mainly , a disease is recognized with just an intelligent guess not in a scientific diagnosis . By that time , people mainly rely on the traditional process of detecting an illness since medial breakthroughs has not yet unveiled

If we assume that this disease really affected women , then , by what percentage among women is affected ? One percent , two percent or five percent ? How do we know ? People could conclude that a certain disease is really a breast cancer due to the fact that the time is assumed to be `breast cancer occurrence

Also different diseases scourge the people . What if it is tuberculosis cancer or anything ? Besides , in the article , it is hard to conclude that breast cancer really developed from a breast cancer itself . In short the strikes of the disease on a person are just a story of a person . How could we assure that his story is really true ? Here say is difficult to justify that it is really true

In the other side , if it really happened , the procedure on operation is very unethical . In one story , the process of treatment seems to be inhuman , treating a person like an animal . It says that there was no anesthesia or any other pre-operation procedure for the pain to minimize . In fact , the surgeon just heated metal spatula for the wound to stop bleeding . The amputation procedure is really ruthless . The process should not be like this for it treat a human just a...