Wednesday, September 21, 2011

summary of immortal life of Henrietta Lacks(p.1-33 )

Summary:
    The Author of The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks is Rebecca Skloot. She saw some pictures on internet or magazine, even her professor had metioned this women. However, she had never known the women who was. It made her to interest in research this women. Henrietta Lack grew up by her grandpa in a poor family. During time,she alway help her family doing with the farm work. She got married with a man that they had five children. Unforeseeable, tht doctor find out that Henrietta had cervical cancer which made her sad. Aa a doctor wanted to do research for human's cell, he took the cells from Henrietta Lacks without asking.

Reaction:
     At that time, the socity was unfair. The coloured people was hard to go to hospital, as there was discriminste by white people.

Queation:
     At the end of story, the reason of Henrietta lacks'dead was science or that she could not get curing from a good doctor?