Alyson Smith 2nd Semester AP English Henrietta Lacks SOAPSTone Speaker: Rebecca Skloot is the speaker. She is a woman who has a picture of Henrietta Lacks hanging on her wall. As she was in her community college biology class her professor mentioned Henrietta sparking her knowledge. After hearing about Henrietta‚ Rebecca was intrigued to find out more about the cells and Henrietta’s life. Occasion: Rebecca starts talking in present time as she is looking at the picture on her wall. An example
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Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Abby Howe October 4‚ 2012 Just imagine part of your body being taken away from you...scary right? That is exactly what happened to Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot explains who Henrietta was‚ where she came from‚ the events that put her in the hospital and eventually killed her‚ and the legacy she has left in the world of science. Henrietta Lacks was born Loretta Pleasant in Roanoke‚ Virginia on August
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research‚ contributing to developments like vaccines and other medical advancements. However because of their race and socio-economic status‚ Henrietta Lacks and the rest of the Lacks family were exploited by doctors‚ researchers‚ and the media. Rebecca Skloot’s book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks explores these issues‚ without taking advantage of them
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didn ask for her consent form her or her family. But they were honored by the National foundation for Cancer Research and the Smithsonian Institution. There was a book written about Henrietta by Rebecca Skloot called “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”. There was also talk about a film based on Ms. Skloot book that was going to be developed. Henrietta’s sons and granddaughter were allowed to work on it and be co-executive producer on. There were so many ways they wanted to remeber her as well as
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Do The Ends Ever Justify The Means? In her novel‚ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ author Rebecca Skloot addresses the many variations of ethics by telling the readers about the life of a poor African American Southern tobacco worker living in a time where racism was apparent. In 1951‚ Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 30 and reseachers had taken her cells without her permission. The major concern that arises in the novel in my opinion is the lack of informed consent
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during her delivery‚ or her 6-week visit. It seems unlikely her doctors missed it; they chose not to tell her. In her medical records‚ there is no indication she questioned her doctors. She was susceptible‚ as most patients were at this time‚ to what Skloot describes as “benevolent deception”. This was when doctors would withhold vital information from their patients. This was done to prevent patients from being hurt or confused with unfamiliar terms. In this era of medical paternalism‚ it was believed
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thus are said to be “immortal.” A striking example is a cell line that has been reproducing in culture since 1951. (Cells of this line are called HeLa cells because their original source was a tumor removed from a woman named Henrietta Lacks” Rebecca Skloot‚ 2011‚ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was a beautiful‚ strong‚ independent‚ black woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her ancestors. She was known
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later‚ her children found out. Their lives would never be the same"‚ I was wondering how a person’s cells could create a multimillion-dollar industry and why none of Lacks’ family know about it until twenty years later. After reading this book by Rebecca Skloot‚ I was fascinated on so many levels‚ the ethical issues appear in the book let me see the other side of medical research that I have never seen before. After Henrietta Lacks died‚ a doctor in John Hopkins Hospital took her cervical cancer cells
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Alex Brown Dr. Sobatka POP 1 Section 3 20 September 2013 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks When I first started reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot‚ I thought it was going to be like reading any other assigned book. As I read more and more‚ I recognized how wrong my initial thoughts were. Henrietta Lacks has affected every person one way or another through her cells‚ and I doubt they even realize it. I know if had not read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚
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surgery for treating invasive cervical cancer.” (Skloot 32). Radium had been used for years to treat cancer and despite its drawbacks it had been shown that it effectively “kills cancer cells.” (Skloot 32). Because Lacks was receiving quality medical care for free‚ the least she could do was let them use her cells for medical tests. After all‚ the research hospital she was receiving treatment at “was one of the top hospitals in the country.” (Skloot 15) Henrietta might not have realized that one of
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