The first time author, Rebecca Skloot knew Henrietta Lacks from her biology instructor. While Skloot heard about Henrietta Lacks, she interested in anything about her, like her immortal cells gave a huge benefits for people, but no one really knew her. Skloot started doing a lot of research about Skloot. Lacks’s daughter, Deborah said the hospital just take her mother’s cells without asking them and made a lot of money from Henrietta Lacks and did not pay any benefits to family Lacks. Henrietta Lacks found out something wrong in her womb While she had pregnant with her fifth child, she decided to Hopkins hospital which is the only hospital accepted colored patient to do the exam. Because of that period colored people was discriminate against by white people, Henrietta Lacks felt uncomfortable about going to hospital. She didn’t know the words in hospital and she had to go to the colored-only wards and fountains. She did not show up many times.
Henrietta Lacks’s mother was died when she giving the birth to her tenth child. Because of it, Henrietta Lacks’s sent them back to Clover asked for help. Relative divide them to different family. Henrietta Lacks was living with her grandpa and a cousin Day. They were farmer, they tended a garden planting food and tobacco, and they also feed their livestock’s. at harvest season, they went to a market for selling the tobacco. When Henrietta Lacks grew older, she married to her cousin, Day. And then she had a first when she was 14. Henrietta Lacks became a housewife and took care of their children and farm.
Henrietta Lacks got the diagnosis and knew she had a cervix cancer, stage 1. She needed to have an operation. During the period of 1951s, more than 15,000 women died every year from cervical cancer. Doctors tried to find out a way to solve it. They started remove some cells from each patient who had cancer and kept cells alive to discover the method to overcome the cancer. Doctors fail many times but they still believe it. Therefore, Henrietta Lacks was one of the patient they took the sample during the operation.
reaction:
This is the first time read a book that talks about the history of white people discriminate against the colored people. It touched me. They get many unfair treatments, and live harder. They are not allowed to see a doctor, the only hospital accepts colored patients are for get free cells from patient and do the research.
question:
Giving to many births is a reason to cause a cervix cancer?
Is it ok to married a relative and their children are still heath? (Henrietta Lacks married her cousin Day)
