The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

George Gey was a German scientist who made significant contributions in the field of tissue culture. His most remarkable experiment is the immortalized human cell line. This reflection focuses on Geys characters and, the contribution of his goals and motivation on the book The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks. Gey was a self-motivated person who valued scientific development. As an undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburg, Gey spent most of his time at Pittsburg hospital where he encountered numerous cancer related complication. During his time, there was no chemotherapy or any other form of treatment for cancer patients. This encounter is likely to have disturbed him a lot forcing him to develop treatment and cure for cancer. Gey was also an inventive person. He constructed the first tissue culture laboratory using scraps collected from Jake Shapiros Junkyard and samples from the cervix of Henrietta Lacks, a mother of five. Tissue culture, which was Geys invention, is hence considered more of an art than a science. Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 after a long struggle with cervical cancer. It is believed that Gey cultured her cell without permission from her family. If Lacks family met with George Gey face to