ECON 2000 Chapter : HeLa Essay
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I swear to the lord, i still can"t see, why democracy means everybody but me . In rebecca skloot"s the immortal life of henrietta. Lacks the african-american lacks family remains in poverty struggling to survive while the medical industry is bustling off of the billions of dollars that a malpractice performed upon their deceased mother generated. While the industry created many successful vaccines and achieved a milestone off of henrietta"s cancer cells the lackses haven"t seen a dollar from them. It can be drawn from hela as well as other happenings in the past that american industries have downplayed their own scandals under the ruse of racism as represented in the immortal life of. Around the time of henrietta"s death, a study was in progress in tuskegee that knowingly deprived african-american"s of their basic human rights. During this study, the doctors had actually injected the men with syphilis in order to study them" (skloot 50).
