henrietta lacks
Played Disparity
Rebecca skloot’s road to self-evolvement came about when she first heard about this unknown woman’s cells were used to create the first immortal line of cells. Which is kind of ironic because she heard about it in a class she felt ambiguous about which turned into a life altering fixation.It pretty much then defined her life to the extent of opening the door to a tirade of invective; and a closure of open wounds. The coming ten years piloted her in reexamining her whole understanding of race, faith. Science, journalism and ethics.
Henrietta Lacks was born as Loretta Pleasant on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia. Her mother died when she was four years old. Henrietta grew up in the same house as her cousin who ended up being her husband “skloot” pg. 40-42. It all started when Henrietta lacks went to John Hopkins University Hospital to examine a “knot on her womb” that she had been feeling for the past year. Dr. Howard Jones took some sample of a shiny, nickel-sized purple lump on Henrietta’s cervix which turned out to be to malignant cancer “skloot” pg.44. It is peculiar because four months earlier when she gave birth to a baby no abnormality had been observed. It makes you wonder how they might have missed it and would have this been oblivious if she were white. Dr. Richard Telinde was one of the leading researchers of cervical cancer in 1950s and he had been working with Dr. George Gey to grow cancerous cervical tissues in a lab for quite a while. So when Henrietta went to the hospital for the treatment of her malignant tumor, the surgeon removed a healthy and cancerous cervical tissue sample for Dr. Gey before putting tubes of radium into her
cervix (which makes her barren but completely neglected by Dr.Jones &TeLinde)“skloot” pg. 44-48 as treatment for her cancer without her consent or knowledge for that matter which unequivocally shows the god like complex doctor attained back
Rebecca skloot’s road to self-evolvement came about when she first heard about this unknown woman’s cells were used to create the first immortal line of cells. Which is kind of ironic because she heard about it in a class she felt ambiguous about which turned into a life altering fixation.It pretty much then defined her life to the extent of opening the door to a tirade of invective; and a closure of open wounds. The coming ten years piloted her in reexamining her whole understanding of race, faith. Science, journalism and ethics.
Henrietta Lacks was born as Loretta Pleasant on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia. Her mother died when she was four years old. Henrietta grew up in the same house as her cousin who ended up being her husband “skloot” pg. 40-42. It all started when Henrietta lacks went to John Hopkins University Hospital to examine a “knot on her womb” that she had been feeling for the past year. Dr. Howard Jones took some sample of a shiny, nickel-sized purple lump on Henrietta’s cervix which turned out to be to malignant cancer “skloot” pg.44. It is peculiar because four months earlier when she gave birth to a baby no abnormality had been observed. It makes you wonder how they might have missed it and would have this been oblivious if she were white. Dr. Richard Telinde was one of the leading researchers of cervical cancer in 1950s and he had been working with Dr. George Gey to grow cancerous cervical tissues in a lab for quite a while. So when Henrietta went to the hospital for the treatment of her malignant tumor, the surgeon removed a healthy and cancerous cervical tissue sample for Dr. Gey before putting tubes of radium into her
cervix (which makes her barren but completely neglected by Dr.Jones &TeLinde)“skloot” pg. 44-48 as treatment for her cancer without her consent or knowledge for that matter which unequivocally shows the god like complex doctor attained back