View of the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack
According the novel “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack”, I can found that the
author used the history of HeLa to ironic the medicine and show the real side of the
society. In the novel, the author shows the experiment that how doctors find the HeLa
and research it. The experiment fill with irony, we can find that doctors didn’t get allow
from Henrietta, that they can research the cell of Henrietta, even they didn’t told to
Henrietta about the research. It is a terrible thing for all patients, because we won’t
believe our doctors. And we can find the terrible example from the experiment of HeLa,
that Dr. Southam uses his patients to practice his research and he didn’t feel the
mistake from his action, and he get supports from many doctors who believe it is right
and did it ever. Finally, the author show end fill with irony for Henrietta Lack’s family.
Even although many people get benefit and health from HeLa, but Henrietta Lack’s
family still poor and sick, even they don’t has enough money for look doctor, and they
didn’t know about the HeLa since twenty years, It is a irony and sad. In conclusion, the novel
uses the Henritta Lacks’s life and the detail of HeLa of experiment to show the dark side of
society and make the question in mind of people, that who are we can believe for our body
According the novel “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lack”, I can found that the
author used the history of HeLa to ironic the medicine and show the real side of the
society. In the novel, the author shows the experiment that how doctors find the HeLa
and research it. The experiment fill with irony, we can find that doctors didn’t get allow
from Henrietta, that they can research the cell of Henrietta, even they didn’t told to
Henrietta about the research. It is a terrible thing for all patients, because we won’t
believe our doctors. And we can find the terrible example from the experiment of HeLa,
that Dr. Southam uses his patients to practice his research and he didn’t feel the
mistake from his action, and he get supports from many doctors who believe it is right
and did it ever. Finally, the author show end fill with irony for Henrietta Lack’s family.
Even although many people get benefit and health from HeLa, but Henrietta Lack’s
family still poor and sick, even they don’t has enough money for look doctor, and they
didn’t know about the HeLa since twenty years, It is a irony and sad. In conclusion, the novel
uses the Henritta Lacks’s life and the detail of HeLa of experiment to show the dark side of
society and make the question in mind of people, that who are we can believe for our body