I think The Immortal LIfe Of Henrietta Lacks is an important story to be heard by the public because it lets people know how African Americans were treated unfairly, specifically Henrietta Lacks. It will allow readers to see how doctors treated their patients with a lot of disrespect regarding personal rights. After reading this book, readers will become more aware of situations similar to Henrietta lacks and, therefore won't happen again to people in the future. The public will also be able to see how special of a person Henrietta was and how poorly her family is being treated now for it. Although the Lack's family is not getting any compensation for Henrietta's cells, this book gives Henrietta and her family some well deserved credit.
I think Rebecca Skloot faced many challenges in writing this book for such a broad audience. For one, many people most likely don't care about Henrietta's cells and what they have done for our advancement in the medical field today. Rebecca also had to deal with gathering legit information to satisfy both medical experts along with ordinary people. Lastly, it must had been a challenge for Rebecca to deal with the negative media that disagreed with many of her facts. This most likely gave many medical experts a bad name.
I anticipate on some challenges while reading TILOHL. It will be difficult for me to accept some of the facts about Henrietta Lack's story. Even though I thought it was a good thing the doctor's took cells from Henrietta because it has helped advance our medical field so much, It will be a challenge for me to read why they didn't ask for Henrietta's permission. I don't like the fact that just because she was an African American and slave, that she didn't have any say in her personal rights. Overall, some parts of this book will be challenging for me to read and others will be very interesting.
