Thursday, February 9, 2017

Summary of the book

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks, create verbally by science source Rebecca Skloot, is slightly the long tour of Henrietta Lacks cells (HeLa). Starting from the day Henrietta was natural in Clover, Virginia; to the baring of HeLa and Henriettas remnant in 1951 at the Hopkins hospital; and up to the make of the book in 2009. Skloot goes into the discovery and importance in science (cell culture) of the HeLa cells, as well as the history and present life-time of Henriettas family. The scientific discovery of Hela and the set up it had on the lacks family is told from years of question by Skloot with the help of Henriettas older daughter, Deborah Lacks. The depth in details of her travel, findings, and the emotional federation she holds with with both the readers and family of Henrietta is apparent from starting to end. Skloot uses word to word statements from Henriettas family and doctors, only changing n primordial words for clarity of grammar purposes in which she states in the prologue. Also, the relationship and boldness Deborah and skloot build through their journey together is special. Especially when it took Deborah a hard time swear any white home that came around talking ab out her puzzles cells, and distanced herself from development about her mother; Skloot became the one that Deborah finally open(a) up to after a year of calls from Skloot requesting more information about her mother.\nSkloot organizes the book into trine major sections, life, death, and immortality. Life, tells the story of the early life of Henrietta Lacks up to her death on October 19, 1951. She died only a few months after liberal birth to her last child, Joe Lacks. Diesing from many cervical cancer tumors on mostly all of her major organs. Diagnosed as Epidermoid carcinoma but years later turned out to be Cervical adenocarcinomas: a more aggressive cervical cancer. From her cells collected before and after her death-- head of tissue cultur...

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