What did you learn from reading The Immortal Life? What surprised you the most? What disturbed you the most?ДЎ. What does the story of Henrietta Lacks and her family add to this discussion?ДЎ2.В Do you think the family is owed money for the sale of the HeLa cells?В Do you agree with their feeling that they should be compensated?ДЎ3.В Was the presence of the author in the book disruptive or appropriate?ДЎ4. Making health care affordable to all Americans has been a recent political focus. What do we know about her process from the foreword and endnotes? How does her narrative reconstruction of HenriettaвЂ™s life impact the story? How do you feel about the reconstruction?ДЎ1. Skloot had to make a lot of choices about how she recounted HenriettaвЂ™s story and how she structured the book. Did you find it enjoyable to follow her through the ins-and-outs of the laboratory and scientific research? Or was this a little too 'petri-dishish' for you?ДЎ0. Author Rebecca Skloot is a veteran science writer. What do you think of the incident in which Henrietta's children 'see' their mother in the Johns Hopkins lab? How would you have felt? Would you have sensed a spiritual connection to the life that once created those cells.or is the idea of cells simply too remote to relate to?Д©. Were you bothered when researcher Robert Stevenson tells author Skloot that 'scientists donвЂ™t like to think of HeLa cells as being little bits of Henrietta because itвЂ™s much easier to do science when you dissociate your materials from the people they come from'? Is that an ugly outfall of scientific research.or is it normal, perhaps necessary, for a scientist to distance him/herself? If 'yes' to the last part of that question, what about research on animals.especially for research on cosmetics?ДЁ. What are the spiritual and religious issues surrounding the living tissue of people who have died? How do Henrietta's descendants deal with her continued 'presence' in the world.and even the cosmos (in space)?Д§. What are the legal ramifications regarding payment for tissue samples? Consider the the RAND corporation estimation that 304 million tissue samples, from 178 million are people, are held by labs.Д¦. Follow-up to Question #2: Should patient consent be required to store and distribute their tissue for research? Should doctors disclose their financial interests? Would this make any difference in achieving fairness? Or is this not a matter of fairness or an ethical issue to begin with?ДҐ. What are the specific issues raised in the book-legally and ethically? Talk about the 1980s John Moore case: the appeal court decision and its reversal by the California Supreme Court.Д¤. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is the story of an African American woman and her family thatВ touches on many big issues: bioethics, racism, poverty, science, faith, and more. Who did what with the cells, when, where and for what purpose? Who benefited, scientifically, medically, and monetarily?Дў.

Start by unraveling the complicated history of Henrietta Lacks's tissue cells.

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