IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hela, Susan Sontag
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Family as specimens: they said they were being tested for the cancer that killed henrietta, but the doctors actually just wanted to learn more about them. Illness as metaphor susan sontag 1978: metaphors surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the su ering of patient and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. Seeing the other: scientists don"t like to think of hela cells as being little bits of henrietta because its much easier to do science when you dissociate your materials from the people they come from. robert stevenson. Imagining the other: her cells bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world. , like slavery.