Essays on Deborah Lacks

In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta lacks, author Rebecca Skloot explains how the continuous negative encounters with doctors can lead to generations of mistrust. What else can someone expect from people that had suffered since they were little children. All four of Henrietta's kids suffered abuse by some members of their family, and later on their lives they find out their mother had suffered a lot on the hands of some doctors from Hopkins. Henrietta's kids felt how…

Rebecca Skloot begins her book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, with a quote from Elie Wiesel: “We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.” This demonstrates the manner in which Skloot viewed Henrietta, as person with her own universe of mysteries, and not just in the legacy of her…

The novel “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” written by author Rebecca Skloot’s is a very interesting and fascinating novel. As the author Rebecca Skloot goes on an adventure very determined to learn about a woman named Henrietta Lacks life and her immortal cells which is well known as “HeLa Cells”. Skloot wanted to be able to share the story of not only Henrietta but also Henrietta’s family since there was little known about both Henrietta and her family all…

In 1951 a poor young black woman, Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer and at the time was treated in the “colored ward” or segregated division of Johns Hopkins Hospital. The procedure required samples of her cervix to be removed. Henrietta Lacks, the person who was the source of these cells was unaware of their removal. Her family was never informed about what had been accomplished with the use of her cells. The Lacks family has not received anything…