The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Summary

The United States is a blessed nation, which seems to be far off withdraw from the noticeable confronts of a capitalistic society. In today’s days our state laws seek to put an end to discrimination and inequality. In these days it is easy to listen to a lot of people who are talking about the changes the government is doing with education, medical care, and proving affordable housing. As stated by in the article U.S. poverty rises despite economic recovery there is, “About 16.1 million children and 3.9 million people aged 65 years and older were living in poverty last year.” A person no matter what ethic or race, they are is considered homeless without a home if he or she must sleep somewhere in conditions not meant for human residence. Such as living in a car or under a freeway. I believe the government has the obligation of helping all of these people who are mentally or …show more content…
As we see in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebeca Skloot we see that was the many cases of blacks. Like Henrietta Lacks she was not treated equal to the whites, whites were lucky enough to be provided with a more privileged medical care. When blacks were left almost on the sidelines. Getting little medical help. When Henrietta lacks pasted away her family was left devastated. Skloot points out the irony of the first HeLa factory being established at the Tuskegee Institute, where black men were being exploited and allowed to die as research subjects. Rebecca Skloot states in her book The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks that, “Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white.” (p. 97) Quite a few members of Henrietta’s family later pointed out the same sarcasm, that their mother’s cells helped create vaccines and drugs. None of which were really available to her relatives, because they were too