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Disability Studies views disability in various fields such as politics, culture, Ethnicity etc. and one such field is medical. Medical disability is the impairment of an individual’s physiology and psychology. It can be also viewed as the difference between normal and abnormal bodies. Health is an important thing to lead a happy and peaceful life. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult is a heart touching novel which tells about the effects of a deadly disease that attacked one of the characters in the novel, Kate. A disease not only affects the person suffering from it but all those who are related to them tends to suffer especially the family members. The character Kate Fitzgerald, a 13 year old girl, who suffered from Acute Promyletic Leukemia, never wanted to live because of the painful effects of the disease on her. Her younger sister Anna Fitzgerald, who was a scientifically engineered child to save her sister too undergoes treatment and pain without being sick. The disease puts all the members in to traumatic experiences. The question of Kate’s survival continuously prevailed in the novel. The disease made Kate to depend on the people around her both physically and emotionally and also made her disabled in her movement, thoughts and actions.