This book really moved me and made me think about all the ethical issues that have been around for centuries. I wondered how different, if at all, the outcome would have been if Henrietta was white. Her cells are still helping to improve the medical world today, and I think that she would be extremely proud if she could see the advances medicine has made, however it was heart-wrenching to see how much her family suffered because of the cells. I have a lot of respect for Rebecca Skloot and how she devoted more than ten years of her life to help the Lacks family find the truth. I took this picture because I was moved by the racial issues in the book. This picture represents many things. It represents that even though Deborah and her family were not trusting of Rebecca at all in the beginning, they ended up coming together to find out the truth about Henrietta. It also symbolizes the coming together of Whites and Blacks in many cases throughout this book. Some of the people that were being helped by Henrietta's cells would have never accepted them if they knew that they were being injected with a black woman's cells. In the end it doesn't matter what color we are, because we are all just people trying to better the world.
The following link is an article from Johns Hopkins Magazine and I found it to be an interesting article.
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