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    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…

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    Danielle Robinson Robert White FA17-IN-SOC-R100-21545 20 September 2017 Book Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks played a pivotal role in scientific cellular research, although she or her family wasn’t given the notoriety that they deserved. Rebecca Skloot investigates the life of Henrietta Lacks and the people that loved her dearly in her book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Given Henrietta’s gifts of fortune or the lack thereof, she was born a black, deprived…

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    greater community, but a large portion of them choose to commercialize in order to turn a profit, causing many to debate whether or not it is ethical to put a price on a human life. One contributor to the argument is Rebecca Skloot, whose book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, illustrates the life of Henrietta Lacks and how her cells were taken without permission, grown in culture, and bought and sold for millions of dollars, all while her family lived in poverty. Stories like the Lackses’…

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    This paper aims to compare the ideas of German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and Indian freelance writer Amish Tripathi. Amish’s debut novel “The Immortals of Meluha” displayed Shiva as a Tibetan immigrant who initially by choice become the apple pie for the people o Meluha but eventually in the book he is celebrated as the Mahadev by his deeds and action. After becoming the Neelkanth, he fought for various issues like abolition of Vikrama system, untouchability of Vikrama woman, questioning…

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    It is a continuous cycle, always coming back to the same starting point. Like a circle, there is no beginning, and there is no end. In Buddhism, this concept of a circle is very important for the principle of rebirth. If one does not live a fulfilling life, one cannot leave the cycle and reach nirvana. Being reborn is like hitting a reset button to get a second chance. One should live constantly working to escape this cycle and reach salvation. Above all, I believe Genji’s story is about second…

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    The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” dives into the story of an African-American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died at a young age shortly after, leaving behind 5 children, a husband, and many cousins. When Henrietta was at John Hopkins being treated for her cancer, the doctors took a sliver of her tumor and cultured it to see if they could make the cell “immortal”. This all happened back in the 50’s when colored people weren’t seen as equal citizens to white people…

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks was born as Loretta Pleasant in 1920 in Virginia. Her mother died when she was four years old, then her father took her and her siblings and moved them to Clover, Virginia where they lived with their grandfather. Henrietta lived with many of her cousins and worked the tobacco fields all day. She was really close with her cousin David “Day” Lacks. They ended up falling in love and having their first child when Henrietta was 14 years old.…

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    families and lifestyles led by the racist facilities who withheld treatment and services, the degrading occupations they were given, and the attitude of people around them, all contributed to what generally became a ruinous lifestyle. The book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, tells the family history behind the famous HeLa cells and follows the mistreatment of Henrietta and her family over the years. Many blacks were affected detrimentally by the obvious difference in…

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    Despite this contribution, her family lives utterly destitute, her name forgotten by all but her most dedicated followers. Rebecca Skloot’s book attempts to correct this injustice, giving life to the woman many simply know as HeLa. Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks hammers the point home by using pathos to highlight the suffering of Henrietta, logos to detail the historical context in which the breaches of ethics took place, and ethos to cement her expertise over biology and cell…

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    Ethics of Patient Treatment The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a true story based on Henrietta Lacks, who was a patient at John Hopkins in the 1950’s. Treatment of African Americans in the 1950’s was very cruel and inhuman in the medical field and was fueled by racial stigmas and socioeconomic status. In the 1950’s African Americans were also targeted because of their socioeconomic status and ethnicity to participate in medical research such as the very cruel Tuskegee syphilis…

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