"I saw this movie a bunch of times," she said. But Deborah waved her hand in my facing, shushin me like I was talking nonsense, then fished a videocassette for the pile and held it up for me to see. Deborah thinks they there are clones of her mother made by scientists.ĭeborah raised her eyebrows at me like See? I told you! I started saying it was just Henrietta's cells scientists had cloned, not Henrietta herself. This is an excerpt in which Deborah Lacks (Henrietta's daughter) is talking to the author about cloning. Here is an example of what I'm talking about. When I read about them I felt anger, frustration, and sympathy all at the same time. ![]() ![]() I don't know if society had let these people down or if it is a cycle of poverty issue. But I found the decedents of Henrietta to be very scientifically illiterate. This cell line was used in testing Salk's polio vaccine and other medical discoveries. While I really did enjoy this book, I found the juxtaposition of the scientific uses for the HeLa line and the Lacks family themselves unnerving. It concerns the life and death of Henrietta Lacks and the immortal HeLa cell line created from her cervical cancer. It is a non-fiction book released in 2010. Has anyone else read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
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