I completely agree with Nick Lund’s post about the possible obstacles involved in reading and writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks found at http://nelundlsc100f09.blogspot.com/. The first thing he says is that it is an important story to be heard because it can help us with making future laws. There is a lot of debate about whether or not a doctor should need consent to use a persons cells, or anything else from their body. This story seems to prove that consent should be necessary, so it can really help with decisions like that. The next point Nick Lund makes is that Millions of dollars were made from Henrietta Lack’s cells, but she was unable to pay for health insurance herself. This is completely unfair to Henrietta and her family. If her cells were used to make millions of dollars, the least the researchers and doctors could have done was give some profit to the Lack’s family so they can afford necessary things such as health care. Nick Lund claims that it is very important for this story to be heard so people can learn from the mistakes that were made previously. I am behind this one hundred percent because it would be a shame to see anything like this happen to someone again.
The next point Nick Lund makes in his blog is how Rebecca Skloot had to overcome a major obstacle while writing this book. Skloot had to write accurately about the Lacks family, while keeping many different types of audiences interested. It must have been extremely difficult to keep experts interested in the book, while keeping it exciting so students stay interested as well. Nick Lund’s blog about the struggles of writing and reading The Immortal Life of Henriettta Lacks is a very accurate analysis.
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