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Create a 5 pages page paper that discusses the immortal life of henrietta lack.

Create a 5 pages page paper that discusses the immortal life of henrietta lack. Biopsy of cancer cells was for the first time conducted at Johns Hopkins. HeLa cancer cells were sold around the world and different laboratories had an opportunity to conduct researches and studies based on the cancer cells taken from Henrietta Lacks. Lacks was a 31 year-old woman, who had five children and was treated in different hospitals. The role of HeLa cells cannot be denied, because these cells have triggered the outbreak of virology development and biotech technologies. The scientists grew more than 50 million metric tons of her cells. Thanks to this woman, the billions of careers in the sphere of medicine were developed and the numerous researches and studies were initiated. The children of Lacks found out that their mother’s cells were still alive, though their mother was dead. In this book the author claims that Lacks was one of the most important women, who was alive and suffered from cancer though issued active cells. Moreover, there is a strong emphasis made on the racial politics in medicine. People were interested in the Lacks’ family only when they needed the HeLa cells. There is a great emotional impact exerted on the family of Lacks. It can be easily explained by the fact that there are numerous obtrusions in the ethics and law and the issue of cells collection is really challenging. In accordance with the daughter of Henrietta: “Truth be told, I can’t get mad at science, because it help people live, and I’d be a mess without it. I’m a walking drugstore! . . . But I won’t lie, I would like some health insurance so I don’t got to pay all that money every month for drugs my mother cells probably helped make” (Skloot 2010). The narration of the book is mediated by Deborah. The girl feels that her mother suffers from the constant experiments and her cells are suffering and so does the mother. In the book human cells are positioned as immortal entities, which carry the lives of human beings even after death of a human being. The human nature of the cells taken from Henrietta is strictly criticized by the scientists and they claim that it is better to make different experiments without knowing the owner of the cells. Therefore, it is evident that this book initiated a number of the like cases with serious ethical implications. For example, in the 1980s a doctor who had taken away the cancer-ridden spleen of from John Moore and patented those cells and did not informs the patient about his actions, earned more than $3 billion. The patients have a right to take control over their tissues and the doctors are unable to do different researches or experiments on the basis of the tissues, which were taken from the patients involuntarily. The doctors should refer to their economical concerns and inform the patients about their future actions with the tissues of the patients. Lacks’ children had a chance to go and look at their mother, when she was in the basement and issued millions of cells from her body. Her daughter said that her mother became famous, but it is weird and extraordinary popularity, which should be criticized. Even nowadays these cells are being bought, sold and they will have been further distributed around the world in the name of future researches and studies development, which are focused on cancer cells. The Lacks family did not get a cent from the billions of dollars earned on the basis of HeLa cells implementation and researches in different fields.

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