taken from a young black woman with cervical cancer. Those cells‚ called HeLa cells‚ quickly became invaluable to medical research-though their donor remained a mystery for decades. In her new book‚ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ journalist Rebecca Skloot tracks down the story of the source of the amazing HeLa cells‚ Henrietta Lacks‚ and documents the cell line’s impact on both modern medicine and the Lacks family. Who was Henrietta Lacks? She was a black tobacco farmer from southern Virginia
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Discrimination in the healthcare systems Discrimination is the unjust treatment of people or things. Unfortunately it has been around for ages and it is encountered mostly in workplaces and on the internet. Currently it is still a common issue‚ not just in the American society‚ but worldwide. Healthcare systems are not exempted from this unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things. Nevertheless‚ this society now needs to see beyond any type of discrimination in medical
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Clinical Practice. Web. 6 Mar. 2013. Partners Human Research Committee. Informed Consent of Research Subjects. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. “Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 16 Nov. 2012. Web. 6 Mar. 2013. Skloot‚ Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Crown‚ 2009. Print. “Stanford Prison Expirement.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 31‚ Mar. 2013. Web. 27 Mar. 2013. Vollmann‚ Jochen‚ and Winau‚ Rolf.”Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial” BMJ 313 (1996): 1445-1449
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Eric Middlebrook Professor Stephens LIT 4433 “A Non-Narrative Explanation of the Importance of Narrative” Everyone is familiar on some level with the drab sort of dry-as-a-bone scientific literature students are forced to read and attempt to digest. But perhaps not as many have been exposed to any sort of scientific literature relayed in a narrative style‚ even though those who have probably retained that information more clearly than those who have only perused long-winded text books. The fact
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As we see in “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebeca Skloot we see that was the many cases of blacks. Like Henrietta Lacks she was not treated equal to the whites‚ whites were lucky enough to be provided with a more privileged medical care. When blacks were left almost on the sidelines. Getting little medical help. When Henrietta lacks pasted away her family was left devastated. Skloot points out the irony of the first HeLa factory being established at the Tuskegee Institute
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over.” This was a start of something no one had ever thought of‚ a cure for cancer. So far‚ Henrietta Lacks’ cells are contributed in the polio vaccine. This information was founded in the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot.
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2011. . "Organs for Sale." Irish Times 08142007. 4. LexisNexis. Database. 22 Oct 2011. . Rothman‚ S.M. and D. J. Rothman. "The Hidden Cost of Organ Sale." American Journal of Transplantation (2006): 1524-1528. EBSCOHost. Database. 25 Oct 2011. . Skloot‚ Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishers‚ 2010. 33. US Department of Health and Human Services. Donate the Gift of Life. 18 Oct. 2011. < http://www.organdonor.gov/default.asp>.
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and desires. Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks raises the question of what Personhood is but leaves the answer up to the audience‚ for there is no precise explanation to define the quality of being an individual person. However‚ several different opinions on what constitutes a person can help establish an answer to the question of personhood. In chapter 33‚ The Hospital for the Negro Insane‚ the discovery of what happened to Elsie is particularly affecting; Skloot writes‚ “based
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Summary The story begins by vivid background info on how Henrietta came to realize that she was ill. It is evident that she is suffering from cervical tumor- a condition that is making her feel uncomfortable throughout her life. The effective foreshadowing allows us to forecast what is likely to happen. As the story progresses‚ we are able to understand what Henrietta really needs. From her childhood background we are able to know what she did
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Web. 13 April 2012 Lyon‚ Stephanie. “The Psychological Affects of Spanking Children.” Yahoo.com. Stephanie Lyon‚ 20 July. 2012. Web. 04 April. 2012. Park Alice. “The Long Term Effects of Spanking.” Time.com. 03 May. 2010. Web. 04 April. 2012. Skloot‚ Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Crown Publishing Group‚ 2010. Print
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