The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks While reading the book about Henrietta Lacks and her famous HeLa cells‚ a few issues came to mind. The first is definitely informed consent and the issues surrounding the medical work with the cells. The second issue that I thought about was Henrietta’s struggle as well as her family’s continuing struggle while she was ill and for years after her death. I am also intrigued about the story behind a white woman making the information
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is about a Southern-Christian African-American woman who has developed a deadly disease‚ in which she later dies of. What stands out in the book the most is how Mrs. Lacks was treated because of her ethnicity and how Skloot’s race played a role in some of the treatment in the book. Reading this‚ I thought to myself: if Henrietta would have been white in her lifetime‚ she would have had a better advantage in life. If Skloot would have been African-American
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her tissue to sell her cells or become rich off of them‚ but simply for science. He only used HeLa cells for research purposes and to find cures and he was just giving them away to researchers in order for them to also do research. As stated in The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks‚ “Gey’s history indicates that he wasn’t particularly interested in science for profit: in the early 1940s he turned down a request to create and run the first commercial cell-culture lab.” All of the science that Gey participated
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Why does Plato think that the soul is immortal? Is he right? Discuss with close reference to Phaedo 102a-107b. The Phaedo is Plato’s attempt to convince the reader of the immortality of the soul using four main arguments. These include the argument of affinity‚ recollection‚ Forms and the law of opposites. In the final passage of the Phaedo‚ (Grube‚ 2002:102a-107b)‚ Plato provides his ‘Final Proof’‚ despite seeming like the most conclusive argument it is not necessarily the most convincing. Plato
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at how strong his despair is‚ slowly decaying but not dying as an immortal. The exclamation marks show that he is not saying this softly‚ it suggests that is closer to a cry for help. The help wanted‚ being for him to be changed back into a mortal‚ and to stop ‘rotting away’. Although the other way you could interpret it‚ is that he is feeling very sorry for himself. This could be due to the fact‚ that he regrets becoming immortal‚ and is now crying in despair at his thoughtless decision. Another
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throughout history are blood sucking immortals known as vampires. They transgress the boundaries that humans are always trying to establish. Vampire lore has reflected the values and social structures of the culture it has existed in‚ but over the past century the values have transformed. From the classic story of Stoker’s Dracula where he is presented as sinister and non-human‚ the vampire aspect of literature has evolved drastically to a more heroic immortal. Physically‚ vampires have changed their
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literal immortality‚ but Debora’s quote raises question about spiritual immortality as well. What does it mean to be “immortal” ? Analyze the various ways that Henrietta and Deborah achieve immortality. What does it means to be immortal? Immortal means living forever; never dying or decaying. Literal immortality means immortal condition or quality; unending life. Spiritual Immortality means animating and vital principle in humans‚ credited with the faculties
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involves Greek mythology. He used Hyperion‚ a Greek Titan god‚ as a narrator to describe the difference between a flawless‚ infinite life of immortal and the imperfect and hopeless life of humanity. Holdelin chose Hyperion because he was a god who was overthrown by the other gods to live in the mortal world. Holdelin used Hyperion’s perspective in both immortal and mortal life. Each stanza has its own symbolic meaning that represents the difference of lives between immortality and mortality. Holdelin
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individual mind‚ which can make mistakes‚ and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party‚ which is collective and immortal.” Anti-realism 2+2+5: Idealism “Reality exists in the human mind‚ and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind‚ which can make mistakes‚ and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party‚ which is collective and immortal.” Epistemology and Belief Doublethink Modifying History “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the
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the boredom and the fact that life loses its meaning once these events and other experiences repeat itself. Williams suggests that to make it work‚ then EM will have to continually change everything about her on a regular basis. To live a bearable immortal life one must always be able to change very important aspects about her life (108). EM will have to
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