A) The science in the book- 1) Invasive carcinomas are treated aggressively. 2) Noninvasive carcinomas wasn't deadly as most doctors believed. 3) Cervical corcinomas are divided into two namely: invasive and noninvasive carcinomas. 4) gynecology is the study of diseases and women hygiene
B) The society at that time : the society at taht time was not fair. There was racial discicrimination. The colored people and also Henrrietta did not have same opportunities with the white people. As we can read in the book, they could not to go to any hospitals even it was really emergency. At that time, if the colored people have severe health problem, they could be die or could be in worsen stituation. We have known that there was discrimination But we did not know the discrmination was severe like that much. Reading the book, we learned how severe the discrimination was at that time.
C) At beginning, the story is talking about that the author saw a picture that is turning up pretty often, but she had never known who is she. She began to be interested in this woman, once she was studying biology when she was high school student she heard about the name 'Henrietta Lacks' from Dr. Defler who is the professor of the biology class. She learned about Henrietta lacks and her cells, and it made her more interested in this woman. After that, the author was doing a lot of research for Henrietta Lacks.
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