The immortal life of henrietta lacks pdf

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I don't think that the family is entitled to money though, and I tend to agree with the stance that when a portion of your body is removed by a physician or hospital, it is no longer your property.

The author actually did set up a fund ( ) to donate a part of proceeds from the book to families like the Lacks' family. I think that was partly the author's point in writing it - it would have been an entirely different story of the family had been middle class or college educated and understood at least the basics of what was going on with her cells.

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'they talking about genes and taking them from cells to bring that dinasaur back to life and I'm like oh Lord I got a paper on how they were doin that with my mother's cell too!' She held up another videocassette, this one a made-for-tv movie called The CloneДid anyone get a similar reaction to reading the book?Дefinitely had a similar reaction reading the book a few years ago. 'I saw this movie a bunch of times,' she said. But Deborah waved her hand in my facing, shushin me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette for the pile and held it up for me to see. Deborah thinks they there are clones of her mother made by scientists.Дeborah raised her eyebrows at me like See? I told you! I started saying it was just Henrietta's cells scientists had cloned, not Henrietta herself. This is an excerpt in which Deborah Lacks (Henrietta's daughter) is talking to the author about cloning. Here is an example of what I'm talking about. When I read about them I felt anger, frustration, and sympathy all at the same time. I don't know if society had let these people down or if it is a cycle of poverty issue. But I found the decedents of Henrietta to be very scientifically illiterate. This cell line was used in testing Salk's polio vaccine and other medical discoveries. While I really did enjoy this book, I found the juxtaposition of the scientific uses for the HeLa line and the Lacks family themselves unnerving. It concerns the life and death of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal HeLa cell line created from her cervical cancer. It is a non-fiction book released in 2010.

Above all it is a human story of redemption for a family, torn by loss, and for a writer with a vision that would not let go.'-Douglas Whynott, The Boston Globe.Has anyone else read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It is a well-written, carefully-researched, complex saga of medical research, bioethics, and race in America. Lacks and her family were treated by researchers and about whether patients should control or have financial claims on tissue removed from their bodies.'-Denise Grady, The New York Times 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a fascinating read and a ringing success.

raises troubling questions about the way Mrs. by turns heartbreaking, funny and unsettling. Immortal Life reads like a novel.'-Eric Roston, The Washington Post 'Gripping. It signals the arrival of a raw but quite real talent.'-Dwight Garner, The New York Times Skloot's vivid account begins with the life of Henrietta Lacks, who comes fully alive on the page. floods over you like a narrative dam break, as if someone had managed to distill and purify the more addictive qualities of Erin Brockovich, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The Andromeda Strain. One of the most graceful and moving nonfiction books I've read in a very long time.