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bookish_platypus 's review for:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
My mom always told me to never sign myself up as an organ donor and this book has shed some light onto why that may actually be good advice. I also had a family member who died pretty mysteriously and unfortunately he had already consented to donating his body to science before he passed so there was never any closure there as to what happened to him.
We are all cataloged and experimented on - some folks more than others. But if you've had any "medical waste" removed or have sent in your DNA for 23andMe, you're probably logged somewhere and someone has probably experimented on your "waste".
Doctors are still experimenting on black women as we just saw happen with Adriana Smith. This book highlights the importance of saying their names: Henrietta Lacks, Adriana Smith, and more. Doctors and the government would prefer that we don't humanize literal people but we should continue to do so.
I wish there were more I could say about this other than everyone should read this book. Reading is political.
We are all cataloged and experimented on - some folks more than others. But if you've had any "medical waste" removed or have sent in your DNA for 23andMe, you're probably logged somewhere and someone has probably experimented on your "waste".
Doctors are still experimenting on black women as we just saw happen with Adriana Smith. This book highlights the importance of saying their names: Henrietta Lacks, Adriana Smith, and more. Doctors and the government would prefer that we don't humanize literal people but we should continue to do so.
I wish there were more I could say about this other than everyone should read this book. Reading is political.