I’m astonished that family members were having sexual relations with their cousins on top of having sex with prostitutes. Visiting the doctor can be intimidating to patients, there for medical professionals should show more hospital. My thoughts concerning the first half of the book is that the doctors should be more comforting when it comes to patients. Lacks refusing to see the doctor regularly causes her diseases to get worse. Her doctor charts Henrietta for asymptomatic neurosyphilis but explains that she doesn’t visit the doctor. The doctors believed that the tumor that Lacks had on her womb was syphilis, but tests were negative for syphilis. After having her baby, her pain becomes worse and she deicides to visit the doctor. Henrietta notices a knot on her while she is pregnant. The patients also found it difficult to understand the doctor’s terminology, which is another reason why they failed to visit the doctors. Not having regular doctor visits causes them to later have negative heath effects. Her population also didn’t seek regular medical visits. It is explained that the laws are highly imposed during these times, and that Lacks only seeks medical attention if needed. Having sexual encounters with family members and sex workers later affected David and Henrietta children medically.
Henrietta and her children lack medical attention which causes her second child to become sick. Lacks must transition into an adult at the age of 14 because of early motherhood. David and Henrietta later have another child and decides to get married. We then learn that Henrietta gets pregnant by David at the age of 14, which leads to her other cousin trying to commit suicide. Henrietta and her cousins have limited education due to the fact they worked on a farm. Lacks grew up in a slave house and lived in the same bedroom with her cousin named David. The author informs us that she grew up on a farm and her ancestors were slaves. She is a poor African American woman with little education. In the beginning of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, we are introduced to Henrietta Lacks, born as Loretta Pleasant.
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