The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

The summary of The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

According to The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks page67-92. In this chapter skloot describes how Henrietta married her cousin and left rural poverty on a tobacco farm in Virginia for Baltimore. She had five children and then one day walked into the coloured ward of the Johns Hopkins complaining that “I got a knot on my womb.” Despite treatment, she died in agony 10 months later, tied to her bed as she convulsed in pain. “That cancer was a terrible thing,” one of Henrietta’s cousins told skloot years later. cooties is Henrietta’s cousin and says that she is a nice person and she helps him because him because his polio.

Skloot spends too long with Henrietta’s family, but she is clearly fulfilling a promise to them. If science has exploited Henrietta Lacks she is determined not to. This biography ensures that she will never again be reduced to cells in a Petri dish: she will always be Henrietta as well as HeLa.