But baffling, Henrietta didn’t really know that all of that was going on with her samples. I guess it was lucky that Mary was very sterile and was able to keep those samples alive. It’s interesting that Henrietta was able to have that many children and go through that surgery. Science is baffling to me right now, especially with the things that are happening with my own body and to read about where they started. Having the tubes of radium inside Henrietta and the lead on her body just seems crazy to me. That’s where I’m from and where I live right now. I was never good at science and I’m not huge on history, but this was very interesting that they were in Pittsburgh at a point in their lives. I just can’t believe all the science that was developed at this time. “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside.” 1951. Margaret and George both did so much to further the study of medicine and science and yet…I can’t escape the scandal underneath it all.Ĭhapter 5. Chapters are short enough to feel like I’m moving my way through the dense book but also packed full of great info and people. I really appreciate the pacing of this book so far. Still, at the end of the chapter I’m left wondering…what was different about Henrietta’s cells that they kept on going when other cells would die? Hopefully, we’ll have that answer soon! In this chapter, we see the beginning of laboratory sterile procedures and I was forced to ask myself…if you knew that a surgery area needed to be sterile, why would a lab be any different?! This chapter also introduces us more formally to George Gey who invented the roller-tube culturing technique. I have continually been amazed at how many important discoveries and procedures this book details that happened around the same time. Welcome to the comments and discussion of the Young Adult Cancer Book Club! We are reading The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot! Catch up on Chapters 1-3.
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