Article Response

In looking at the article "Cancer Free at 33, but Weighing a Mastecomy" we see the overall quarrel that people have with removing a part of their body. In Cancer Free... the quarrel was with the womans family who did not want her to have her mastecomy because they felt it was dehumanizing. No one like the idea of removing breats because it is such a defining feature in the eyes of the Deborah's mom. The importance was that it was a safety precaution against the spreading of cancer. I think that the hardest part for the mom was they were healthy enough to survive but still very dangerous. It did not matter how long it took for the cancer to develop, it was inevitable. Deborah made the choice to alter herself and change a defining part of her appearence and that was hard for her mom. Deborah's mom saw it as something that was not necessary at the time and was simply dissapointed by the fact that Deborah was so willing to do the operation even though it was not necessary. The conflict took special consideration because it was difficult to part with something that had become so defining in who she was seen as.