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Summary:

The book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is written by Rebecca Skloot. From 93 to 136, polio spreads in the world. Jonas Salk has developed the polio vaccine, but he does not test it. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP) uses the monkeys for testing. It costs a lot of money so the NFIP ask Gey for help. Henrietta’s cells are the best one for experiments. Gey ships HeLa by using post office. Most cells are alive. When the NFIP hears this, they want HeLa for polio’s test and a factory is built at Tuskegee. Henrietta’s cells are used for helping virology, checking chromosomes, and testing fever. A Fritos factory is established to produce HeLa for selling by Samuel Reader and Monroe Vincent. HeLa is out of Gey’s control. Gey does not want Henrietta’s name to leak out, but it is a near-correct name in the Minneapolis Star. Gey creates the pseudonym to journalists instead of real name. After Henrietta’s funeral, Day works two jobs and Lawrence drops out school to help his father, but he is grafted by the Korean War. Ethel takes care of Henrietta’s children. She abuses them. Galen tries to touch Deborah physically. When she tells her father that, Day does not believe her. After that, Deborah does not talk this again and avoid meeting Galen alone. Rebecca goes to see Cliff, and then he brings her to Henrietta’s grave. In the family’s cemetery, Cliff tells her about the history of Henrietta’s family. Sotham uses HeLa to test what cause the cancer. He injects HeLa into patients, volunteers’ bodies without telling them that is a cancer research. There is a law to restrict the formal research in the United States.

Impression:

I feel so surprised on scientists’ research. When a scientist does a cancer research, he does not tell the truth to his experimenters. It violates to morality. We cannot do anything to achieve the purpose unscrupulously.

Question:

What does Henrietta’s family feel  when they know that someone uses Henrietta’s cells to earn the money?