These chapter really plucked at my heartstring, by showing te hardships the the children encountered after the death of Henrietta. I really like how Skloot uses the book not to just tell people about the life of Henrietta, but all of the lives that she and her cells encountered. I really enjoyed these chapters because it lapsed back and forth between the more emotional, personal world of the scientist and the family and the science behind the HeLa cells. Joe would not have become a public menace, and the state would not be paying for his jail time. Had they received compensation for the factory production of their mother's cells, the family would be able to afford things like food and eyeglasses. Joe would not have been born violent because he was in his mother at the time she had cancer, as the book presumes. Were the children born naturally able to succumb to being the victims of such violent crimes, or were they trained to be accepting of it? Or was it by chance that they became victims, just simply dealt a bad hand in life? I think that the children were raised to think such things were ok, and, namely with Joe, became violent because they were made to endure this cruel abuse. For me, this brings into question the Nature versus Nurture debate. Joe especially endured senseless abuse and Deborah tormented by molestation almost daily. What has touched me through the entire book is the treatment of the children of Henrietta throughout their lives. I'm just getting overwhelmingly frustrated at the situations in this book. But yeah I guess that's all I had to say about these chapters. I mean injecting people with cancer cells without them knowing? That's ridiculous. Also in the science related references in this book I did believe the German experiments were just mindblowingly unethical but it didn't make what the american scientists were doing any better. They learned more about genetics in this way. A big discovery for the whole scientific field. I was particularly interested in the whole somatic cell fusion aka cell sex thing. Also give them the ability to move away from the abuse.Ī problem I was kind of wondering about was when Day allowed them to do the partial autopsy did that also give them the permission to collect the cells? or was that permission strictly observation of her body? I also believe since this was around the time of the factory industry's boom of the HeLa cells, if they had been allowed some compensation then the children could have been living in a better place and didn't have to grow up hungry. But Galen's molestation of Deborah? Just shameful. I mean it wasn't enough that Ethel treated them, especially Joe. I think it really was just unacceptable the way the children were treated after Henrietta died.
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