Henrietta Lacks

often find themselves having to fight for privileges that are considered standards to other wealthy people around them. Henrietta Lacks, better known for her contribution to science with her HeLa cells, faced many injustices that ended up with her unaware donation. While receiving care at the only hospital in the area that would treat black patients, the doctors took cells from Henrietta and began to experiment on them. The cells, coined HeLa, became a huge medical breakthrough being the first…

What is Poverty? Many people do not know the real definition or they may think poverty is just the state of being poor. Well, in fact, poverty is a real problem that millions of people have to face every day and it means not having money, but also means not having food, clothing, shelter, or medical attention that is needed or provided in life regularly. Poverty has a major impact on the world today by taking the majority of the nation’s and world population. However, much of these problems are…

Western Medicine isn’t compromising with Hmong’s cultural beliefs. Even though Anne Fadiman uses a Rogerian argumentation style, I feel like she picked evidence that used a Rogerian style, which in my opinion makes her argument unsuccessful due to the lack of having a variety of styles in her…

Though the novel is able to show how much progress is made due to the use of Henrietta Lack’s cells, the reader is also shown how much pain both Henrietta and her family went through in order for that progress to be made. Similarly to the novel “Blood Medicine”, we are shown how deceptive the people and companies behind these medical products can be. In Skloot’s novel, we see how much the scientists were unconcerned with Henrietta Lack’s health through all the horrible and aggressive medical…

Place and Identity Essay The term place can have several different meanings in geography. It is often thought of as a location of a town, city, or region on the Earth’s surface. More specifically, place can define the unique characteristics of a certain location whether it have a very significant meaning to you or no meaning at all. Places not only includes visual characteristics and features of a location but also the associations and feelings that come over us when we are reminded of it or go…

found a following by some protestant denominations. We wish to compare how eugenics works in theory to how it works in practice, and then again, compare how eugenics in practice is similar to a religion. Texts The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks inspired our topic because it reveals the direct involvement of eugenics with the involuntary sterilization of poor black women in 1920s-1930s Mississippi. Gattaca. By Andrew Niccol. Perf.…

Henrietta Leavitt and Stephen Hawking are similar in a variety of different ways. Both Hawking and Leavitt have contributed a great deal to science. Stephen Hawking had discovered that radiation can escape black holes, and Leavitt had discovered the period-luminosity relationship as well as being fundamental in defining the size of the universe. According to the article on Henrietta Leavitt, “Before Leavitt established the period-luminosity relationship, astronomers could determine cosmic…

until it is absolutely necessary, which can postpone the diagnosis of their cancer for longer. This idea is given a personal face in Rebecca Sloot’s novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, as it is said that Henrietta “only went to Hopkins when she thought she had no choice.” For many Black patients, just like Henrietta, “walking into [hospitals is] like entering a foreign country where [they don’t] speak the language.” Thus, this could help explain why Black patients are more likely to be…

he acted on an impulse out of spite and anger. Another representation of pros and cons being put in the balance of life is in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks where not only Henrietta but her family had to weigh the consequences on different accounts of her cancer. Henrietta herself had to choose to be treated, but her situation represents the lack of the ability to assess your situation and know the benefits and consequences of your…

Rebecca Skloot says, “Tissues from millions of Americans are used in research without their knowledge (Skloot). Once people hear about foul practices within a certain medical facility, they will fear hospitals and procedures. The relatives of Henrietta Lacks and members of the small town she was from rarely visited the doctor, because they afraid that the hospital was performing experiments on them.They saw this as an invasion of privacy and an exploitation of their rights. In the article Your…