Question

Dear staff:

This is Yu.zhou. May anybody who is good at the Health Professionalism class and had read the book entitled "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" help me with the question below. I would like the questions be answered as one or several paragraphs. Thank you, sincerely.

Based on the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", answer the questions below:

What does this book tell us about the history of science and how science has progressed since the 1950s? After reading this book and considering the events it details, what do you think are key factors that influence scientific progress?

Answer 1

Introduction: This is a non-fiction book authored by Rebecca Skloot which introduces us to a 'Real Live Women'.This book is known for its writings featured about science and also dealing with issues which were ethical with respect to race and class in the medical research.

The book talks about Henrietta Lacks and the Immortal Cell Line, popularly known as HeLa, that explains about Lack's Cervical cancer Cell in 1951.

Content: Rebecca Skloot clearly gives an explanation about science in this book, also hepling to understand the racial politics of medicines in a thought manner.

Here we understand that the HeLa cells were taken at the time of biopsy and cultured without taking the consent of the client.These cells were reproduced in a lab in John Hopkins. Scientist have grown over many million cells with the help of HeLa.

Since 1951, science has moved forward much faster beyond the imagination of a common man.

Key factors that influence scientific progress are:

• Identifying individuals and maintaing privacy on thier personal informations.
• Continuous efforts to increase the impacts of health service innovations that are tested successfully by a pilot study or experimental study.
• Effectiveness oriented implementation studies have to be done.
• Adequate resources,dedicated individuals are needed for effective results.
• Increase awareness of the need for more attention in case of research, policy making etc.

Conclusion: This book is much more than a protrait of Lacks life which explains how science can some time mess up with human life.