The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook is about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line known as HeLa, which was created in 1951 from Lacks’ cervical cancer cells.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook‘s plot: The book is about Henrietta Lacks and the immortal cell line known as HeLa, which was created in 1951 from Lacks’ cervical cancer cells. Lacks piqued Skloot’s curiosity after a biology instructor mentioned her, although she knew little about her. Skloot began considerable research on her and collaborated with Lacks’ family to write the book. The book is famous for its scientific style and treatment of racial and class concerns in medical research.
Doctors at Johns Hopkins diagnosed Henrietta with cervical cancer in 1951. Cell samples were obtained during her biopsy and delivered to a researcher who had been working on the subject of trying to generate human cells. Henrietta’s cancer quickly spread, and she died within a year. Her cells, however, proved to be an astounding finding since they continued to develop at an extremely rapid rate.
The doctor at Johns Hopkins began sharing his discovery for free, and this coincided with a high demand for cell samples owing to polio vaccine testing. The HeLa cells would be critical for proving that the vaccine worked, and firms were quickly formed to produce and transport them to researchers all over the world. Henrietta’s cells have now been launched into space, exposed to nuclear experiments, and cited in over 60,000 medical research publications.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human ramifications. It is intimate in emotion, stunning in breadth, and impossible to put down. The book is a creative work that helps the public understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook teaches people that some of your scraps are most certainly sitting in frozen jars in labs someplace. If any of us had anything special in our tissues that may be helpful for medical study, they could be worth a fortune, but we’d never see a cent of it.
Rebecca Skloot has written an enthralling book that explains why Henrietta’s cells were so important, why she went unrecognized for decades, the pain it has caused her family, and how new medical discoveries over the last sixty years have opened a potential Pandora’s Box of legal and ethical issues concerning tissue collection, research, patents, and money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook raises a number of topics that we will all have to deal with in the future.
Sometimes it’s impossible to make firm decisions. You may not believe we should be required to provide informed permission for tests involving tissue or blood donated during an operation or childbirth; this would significantly delay medical research. Maybe cells should be associated with the donor; they should be completely anonymous (as they are today). However, there is only one ‘first’ in any field that deserves respect, and Henrietta Lacks finally gets it with the book, some 50 years after her life ended. Rebecca Skloot has done a fantastic thing here with The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks audiobook.
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