Rebecca

The novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot deals with the theme of quest for discovery, which is evident through point of view in the novel. Skloot’s main purpose of the novel is to inform the reader of the two sides of the story behind the HeLa cells. She accomplishes her purpose by constantly searching and interviewing for information about others point of views, which relates to the theme of quest for discovery. The theme of quest for discovery has characteristics that…

society. However, as time shifts, society's intuition towards the definition of legacy changes as well. There are various types of legacies, ranging from a pecuniary legacy to a reversionary legacy. In “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, Henrietta Lacks leaves behind a reversionary legacy, where an artifact is passed on and can be beneficial to others during their lifespan. A person who played a significant role in Henrietta’s Legacy was her daughter, Deborah Lacks.…

Henrietta's family is popular in the health field, they cannot afford health insurance.. Rebecca writes about Henrietta's family being unwealthy even with their mothers popularity in health stating, “She's the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?” (Skloot, The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, 2010, p. 168). Rebecca Skloot highlights the many forms of injustice brought upon Henrietta…

Karen Andrade WGSS 496 Feminist Community Praxis April 8, 2015 Essay #1 According to Rebecca Solnit, “Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply, rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends” (110). Solnit is trying to convey in her book Men Explain Things to Me the struggles women and feminist have gone through and are going through in a…

In the story “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” a woman is known for her immortal cells not for herself. Henrietta Lacks was a woman who went into the hospital because she had a knot on her womb. The knot was a tumor and a biopsy was done and it proved it was cancer. While having her procedures the doctor took a piece of the knot and sent it to Dr. George Gey. Dr. Gey cultured her cells and they became fast growing and healthy. These cells would start new scientific advances that not many…

she heard about the name again and was so curious that she decided to do research on this woman. Rebecca later learns that Henrietta’s cancerous cells were the first to become the first human cell line, called HeLa. After doing some research Rebecca later learned that in the 21 century, HeLa made some of the most important discoveries. Even so, little was known about Henrietta Lacks so that’s when Rebecca decides to engage with the closest person to Henrietta, her daughter Deborah. The story…

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’, a New York Times Bestseller written by Rebecca Skloot. A book through which several meaningful topics are addressed and brought to light, one of the most significant being, whether or not people should be given legal ownership of, and/or control of their tissues. It is my belief that people should have ownership rights over their own body and what is derived from it, after all if an individual doesn’t have rights over their own body what rights do they have…

than three, and be specific.) I take great pride in being acknowledged in a recent Nature scientific journal publication entitled “Epigenetic Editing of Ascl1 gene in Neural Stem Cells by Optogenetics,” which stems from my work as a research intern at the Indiana University School of Medicine. I am also proud to have had the opportunity to present my research work as a semi-finalist at the Armed Forces-sponsored Southern California Junior Sciences and Humanities Symposium. Last but not least, I…

are a significant case; the doctors refused to discuss the taking of her cells to Lacks or Lacks family until after profit was being made from the cells taken from Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a nonfiction writing by American Rebecca Skloots that took over a…

in order to use them and attempt to grow them in a lab. Taking cells from unexplainable diagnostics without the patient’s consent for research purposes is beneficial for the medical use by future generations, but is immoral. In the story told by Rebecca Skloot, she unravels the deeper aspect of Henrietta’s…