The Immortal Life of Heneritta Lacks and Sociology
1) From the book, “The immortal life of Henrietta lacks” by Rebecca Skloot, Write a single-spaced page on summary about how it relates to Bioethics and sociology.
2) Use at least two recent scholarly peer reviewed articles to support your paper. ASA format, single spaced.
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is one of the fascinating non-fiction books written based on a real-life story. The book accounts for Henrietta Lacks as a black woman brought up in a humble background and ended up marrying her cousin. Due to the infidelity of her husband, Henrietta contracted STDs (Skloot, 2017). Besides, she gave birth to a child with a mental illness which made her be institutionalized. Later, in life, after a series of tissue screening, she was diagnosed with cervical. The doctors, who were attending to her during her excision, took some cell samples and gave to researchers who for a long time were working on the issue of growing human cells. Due to the rapid spread of her cancer, she was pronounced dead within a year after the diagnosis (Skloot, 2017)…
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