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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Compelling Aspects of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Throughout my nineteen years of education‚ I have learned many lessons from the few books read‚ but none has caught my eye just from the title until now. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks brings readers back to the 1950’s by retracing to the popular cancer cells of Henrietta Lacks. This specific book‚ by Rebecca Skloot‚ brought tears to my eyes along with joy in my heart as this black woman dies of cancer while her cells
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chapter 3 when Henrietta went in for her first treatment. “But first – though no one had told Henrietta that TeLinde was collecting samples or asked if she wanted to be a donor – Wharton picked up a sharp knife and shaved two dime-sized pieces of tissue from Henrietta’s cervix: one from her tumor‚ and one from the healthy cervical tissue nearby” (Skloot 33). Although Henrietta had signed the consent form to perform any operative procedure‚ it states nowhere she consented to being a donor of her cells
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In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ Rebecca Skloot embodies the essence of my two most prioritized values; hard work and commitment. In all its essence‚ this essay will communicate how Skloot’s personal journey towards what she deemed morally and ethically just‚ fortifies the idea that these two values in the resolution of the book‚ are what constitutes to her success in procuring her end goal‚ to let the world know who Henrietta Lacks and her family are and their true ordeal. Hence‚ showing
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book‚ “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” become attached to objects that are meaningful to them. It is noticed that a certain object had a significant meaning by analyzing the scene and the character. Dr. Geys assistant‚ Mary described Henrietta Lacks red nail polish on her toes. She described Henrietta being an actual woman‚ something Mary never thought of. Henrietta’s relatives described Henrietta with her red nail polish. The red nail polish was a meaningful object to Henrietta because it
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Gilliam INS 110 September 21‚ 2014 Library Assignment The topic I chose for the library assignment was “racism in medical treatment”. I felt that this topic comes up in the novel‚ “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot multiple times and also relates to the theme “voice” which is what we have been focusing on in our First-Year Experience class. Even though the time of “racism” is over‚ there are still acts of discrimination in the field of medicine. Many doctors and even more
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were still patients at Hopkins‚ making it easy to find them. He was a physician on staff therefore he had access to their contact information and medical records. After the conference‚ Henrietta’s husband David Lacks received a call Hopkins asking if they could draw
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks While reading the book about Henrietta Lacks and her famous HeLa cells‚ a few issues came to mind. The first is definitely informed consent and the issues surrounding the medical work with the cells. The second issue that I thought about was Henrietta’s struggle as well as her family’s continuing struggle while she was ill and for years after her death. I am also intrigued about the story behind a white woman making the information
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Immortality Henrietta Lacks is‚ one of the greatest contributors medical science and research in the past century. Albeit‚ she never knew of her contribution. In fact‚ it took twenty years for her family to be informed about the extensive number of cells that had been produced‚ and that would continue to be produced‚ to further studies in the best medical interest of mankind. The ethics of this situation are hardly questionable and this is what “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is about a Southern-Christian African-American woman who has developed a deadly disease‚ in which she later dies of. What stands out in the book the most is how Mrs. Lacks was treated because of her ethnicity and how Skloot’s race played a role in some of the treatment in the book. Reading this‚ I thought to myself: if Henrietta would have been white in her lifetime‚ she would have had a better advantage in life. If Skloot would have been African-American
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