Henrietta Lacks Argumentative Essay
I was able to listen to a podcast called famous tumors. It talked about many different types of rare case tumors. Such as president Ulysses S. Grant, Tasmanian devils, a man with a safety pin, a nun and God, and a lady and her daughter.
The first segment was over a tumor that president Ulysses S. Grant had died from. They talked about going to see the squamous cell carcinoma that actually killed the president. They then go on to talk about actual Tasmania devils that the photographer Christo Baars witnessed. He brought road kill off into the woods, to lure the devils. He then sees little black shapes appearing in the forest. He sees the devils sniff out the road kill, and all of a sudden they eat and start fighting with each other. After …show more content…
She felt as if something was wrong with her womb; curious enough she was able to find a lump. The doctor she ended up seeing had never seen a tumor like it. The doctors would then take pieces to study, although the cells would die. The lady ended up dying from uremia. As the researcher discovered the cells wouldn’t die and double in size. The researchers were able to produce hundreds and thousands of the cells named the hela strain. Wanting to make a polio vaccine. Finding out that the hela cells replicated with polio. The hela cells were injected with every type of virus to try and find a vaccination. Lastly the daughter of the Henrietta, Debora was highly curious of the mother she never was able to know. Doing research on her mother’s hela cells, she found there were thousands and thousands of these cells. She thought there were clones out there of her mother. Debora was finally able to find a picture and then information on her mother. She worried that the other cells of her mother were living on and hurting her mother. Debora was able to meet her mothers cells, feeling some type of happiness of actually meeting a part of her
The first segment was over a tumor that president Ulysses S. Grant had died from. They talked about going to see the squamous cell carcinoma that actually killed the president. They then go on to talk about actual Tasmania devils that the photographer Christo Baars witnessed. He brought road kill off into the woods, to lure the devils. He then sees little black shapes appearing in the forest. He sees the devils sniff out the road kill, and all of a sudden they eat and start fighting with each other. After …show more content…
She felt as if something was wrong with her womb; curious enough she was able to find a lump. The doctor she ended up seeing had never seen a tumor like it. The doctors would then take pieces to study, although the cells would die. The lady ended up dying from uremia. As the researcher discovered the cells wouldn’t die and double in size. The researchers were able to produce hundreds and thousands of the cells named the hela strain. Wanting to make a polio vaccine. Finding out that the hela cells replicated with polio. The hela cells were injected with every type of virus to try and find a vaccination. Lastly the daughter of the Henrietta, Debora was highly curious of the mother she never was able to know. Doing research on her mother’s hela cells, she found there were thousands and thousands of these cells. She thought there were clones out there of her mother. Debora was finally able to find a picture and then information on her mother. She worried that the other cells of her mother were living on and hurting her mother. Debora was able to meet her mothers cells, feeling some type of happiness of actually meeting a part of her