In chapters 18-22 of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author informs us of what Henrietta’s HeLa cells have done and some history of her family. In chapter 18, HeLa cells have gone to space in the Discoverer XVIII satellite to help determine what happens to human cells in space. Scientist were also creating hybrids with the HeLa cells to help further their understanding of gene regulation. The media didn’t understand what was being accomplished by doing this and therefore, created a negative picture for those scientists. In chapter 19, we get more information about the Lacks family. Deborah get pregnant with her first child when she is 16 and Bobbette pushes her to finish school. Deborah was able to do this with Bobbette’s
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It is frustrating to read how unethical the medical field was during that time and how reckless they were with their procedures. It was also frustrating to read about Deborah escaping abuse by living with Lawrence just to have that happen again when she married Alfred. However, good for her that she ended up leaving him. Even though it took a long time, it was nice to read about the first-time Henrietta’s real identity used in an article released by Howard Jones. I can understand why the Lacks family have the feelings they do about the doctors at the Hopkins hospital and the HeLa …show more content…
Skloot talks about a Navy doctor named George Hyatt who cultured human skin cells to help treat burned soldiers. He experimented the cells he cultured on a volunteer in hopes it would grow new skin but instead it grew cancerous skin tissue (Skloot 138). This example Skloot used appeals to ethos because she discredits this doctor by showing the cell cultures doctors were using were contaminated with HeLa cells that eventually turned into cancer cells. Doctors were using these contaminated cultures on their patients wither they knew it or not. Another example Skloot uses, is when she discusses the HeLa bomb that was dropped by Gartler and how researchers were still using the same cells he said were contaminated (156-157). Skloot includes this because it discredits more researchers who have been working with HeLa cells and it also discredits Gey because he was the one who started HeLa in the beginning. However, I feel like it does credit Gartler because he could’ve said nothing about his discoveries and kept doing his research. Skloot discusses an event in 1969 that occurred at Hopkins when “researchers used blood samples from more than 7,000 neighborhood children-most of the them from poor black families” and “researchers didn’t get consent” (167). This ethos appeal discredits the Hopkins Hospital and the doctors which helps
It is frustrating to read how unethical the medical field was during that time and how reckless they were with their procedures. It was also frustrating to read about Deborah escaping abuse by living with Lawrence just to have that happen again when she married Alfred. However, good for her that she ended up leaving him. Even though it took a long time, it was nice to read about the first-time Henrietta’s real identity used in an article released by Howard Jones. I can understand why the Lacks family have the feelings they do about the doctors at the Hopkins hospital and the HeLa …show more content…
Skloot talks about a Navy doctor named George Hyatt who cultured human skin cells to help treat burned soldiers. He experimented the cells he cultured on a volunteer in hopes it would grow new skin but instead it grew cancerous skin tissue (Skloot 138). This example Skloot used appeals to ethos because she discredits this doctor by showing the cell cultures doctors were using were contaminated with HeLa cells that eventually turned into cancer cells. Doctors were using these contaminated cultures on their patients wither they knew it or not. Another example Skloot uses, is when she discusses the HeLa bomb that was dropped by Gartler and how researchers were still using the same cells he said were contaminated (156-157). Skloot includes this because it discredits more researchers who have been working with HeLa cells and it also discredits Gey because he was the one who started HeLa in the beginning. However, I feel like it does credit Gartler because he could’ve said nothing about his discoveries and kept doing his research. Skloot discusses an event in 1969 that occurred at Hopkins when “researchers used blood samples from more than 7,000 neighborhood children-most of the them from poor black families” and “researchers didn’t get consent” (167). This ethos appeal discredits the Hopkins Hospital and the doctors which helps