Post on your blog, a summary, an impression, and a question to the section you have read.
1. Summary.
Gey brought the cell of Henrietta into the lab. And he and his assistants started to stare and research the cell in the lab. They didn’t expect anything like other cells but the cell of Henrietta was different as the others. They marked and called her cell as HeLa cell. After the first treatment for the tumor, she went to back her normal life. Also she got pregnant, so she had to send her daughter away. However they didn’t tell Henrietta about truth that her cell was growing and examined in their lab.
As time passed her pain has begun to be worse. She had to start the next treatment. The treatment was not hard but it was being to be tough and made her to be sterile because of radiation of the treatment. On the other hand Gey appeared on television to show devoted to his work and explain the cell to people during she was getting the treatment but he did not mention that the cell was from Henrietta.
She had to go to hospital every single day. And she told her doctor the cancer was about to spread out but they didn’t pay attention to her. Eventually, she would not bear the pain anymore, so she went back to hospital and has stayed at the hospital. The suffering went to extremes. And doctors tried to in vain to ease her suffering but it didn't work.
And Laurelian, a microbiologist who was Gey's colleague at Hopkins, visited the hospital to see Henrietta and finally told her what happened to her cell. However she was glad to hear that even though they didn’t tell her about it before and she was in really severe pain because the cell could help and save countless people.
And there was the immortal chicken heart cell that Carrel was growing up. People thought the cells were one of the important advances of the century and influential on the cultural field. However Carrel died, and the cells passed away together. And 5 years later, the HeLa cell began to grow up. So no one paid much attention to it at all.
Eleven years after Rebecca learned about Henrietta in the biology class, she decided to write the book about her and she tried to contact Henrietta’s family. Finally thanks to a man who’d been one of Gey’s only African-American student. She could be in touch with DEBORAH who was only daughter of Henrietta left.
2. Impression.
I was angry and my heart hurt seeing how Gey did to Henrietta. He did not tell anything when he collected her cells, and even he did not visit her and did not tell her anything. It is true that it is important to save many lives but it is also important to respect the right of a person. And he had many chanced to ask her and tell her about the truth even after collecting her cells. I really resent his being too rash.
However, Henriatte was still kind and nice in spite of what Gey did to her. I was surprised at the response of Henriatta when she heard about her cell that was collected and growing. whatever i think, the certain thing is that she was really nice and kindhearted person.
3. A question to the section you have read.
- why did the nurse tell Day that visiting Henriatta made her getting mad and upset?
( p.66 I thought the reason she was crying and moaned an hour after Day and her children left was just she was sad because of the situation that she had loving family but she was sick and could not spend time with them.)
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