Radical medical interventions can completely fracture a person’s relationship with their body.

Evidence

When I was twenty-seven—a skinny, gray-faced scrap, bleeding continuously and hardly able to stand upright—my disease was named. But it was named on the operating table, and to make me viable I had to lose part of my bladder and my bowel, my womb and my ovaries. I woke up to a strange future—childlessness, a premature menopause, and a marriage, already tottering, that would soon fall apart. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 234

Categorization

• SEED: SEED suggests writing about the profound alienation of post-surgical bodily transformation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 234