Essays on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Would it be fair to you and your family if someone benefited from your own cells without anyone in your family knowing? This is one of the problems Henrietta Lacks and her family had to deal with in the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is an in-depth look at the life of Henrietta Lacks and the benefits and pitfalls of using her cell’s in biomedical research. The book, a work of nonfiction, also delves into the lives of Henrietta’s relatives...

Imagine if your mother died and her cells were stolen, as well as you and your siblings growing up in an abusive environment. That is the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family. She was a black woman, who had cervical cancer growing in her...

Informed Consent is patient authorization which is given to a specialist for treatment with full knowledge of the potential dangers and advantages. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot addresses the treatment offered at Johns Hopkins in the 1950’s and Tuskegee. The Tuskegee...

The responsibility people have when they are developing new technology is to not overstep boundaries. In both Frankenstein and The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks tie down with ethics. One can see how science seems to trample human rights. Both Victor in Frankenstein and Scientists...

HeLa cells were the first human cell line able to be successfully and indefinitely cultured. They are now widely available for purchase to use in medical research studies and have been the medium for the development of many scientific innovations and techniques, such as the...