sixteen, but when one million becomes two million, we panic, even thoughthe rate of doubling has not increased. (483)He realizes how humans think and how our society seems to deal with disease and other serious matters. We as a race seem to overlook things if they are not affecting us directly. He doesn’t believe that we can fight nature. He says, “Our species has t won its independence from nature, and we cannot do all that we can dream. Or at least we cannot do it at the rate required to avoid tragedy, for we are not unbounded from time” (Gould 484). In this aspect he differs from Asimov because Gould believethat nature plays a larger role in determining the fate of humans. Asimov believes that people can help themselves more times than not. “The Clan of One-breasted Women” by Terry Tempest Williams has a totally different look at cancer. Her family was victim of the government and their bomb testing. She actually can track the cause of her families’ cancer to this harmful thing. “Most statistics tell us breast cancer is genetic, hereditary, with rising percentages attached to fatty diets, childlessns, or becoming pregnant after thirty” (486). Her essay is much unlike the other two in that she doesn’t look at the medical aspect to the illness, she is looking at a way to possibly be reimbursed for her losses. The only medical viewpoint that she tas is to describe the horrific pain that her family encountered because of the deadly disease. In this essay she doesn’t focus on the possible cures, but she does blame careless people for her suffering. All of these authors have different standpoints the issues of disease, illness, and dying, and who is at fault for it.When I read all of these various view points I understood all of them and could see where they were essentially coming from. I believe that all of these people have a valid fight or point of view. In a ...
