These details can be minor, like em-barrassing habits of less than admi-rable personal hygiene, or major, such as records of sexual peccadilloes or events relevant to court proceedings. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and. Such data, knowingly or unknowingly collected and band-width permitting, may be wirelessly sent to a private or public cloud and stored, often for public view and under a creative commons license.2 Embed-ded sensors on wearers can actively gather information about the world and capture details of a personal na-ture-ours and those of others too. With each release greater numbers of on-board sensors can collect data about physiological characteristics, record real-time location coordinates, and use embedded cameras to “life-log ” events 24x7. From the 2010 Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia, Rebecca Skloot discussed her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. A biography unlike any other, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of a woman who made a contribution to science that still reverberates to. Yet, there are occasions where humans have been robbed of their rights as human beings just because they have had the misfortune to die. One of these is the right to human dignity, which everyone should have. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks As human, people are supposed to be born with certain inalienable rights that everyone is entitled. Like Henrietta, Moore comes in with a medical problem, and is utterly unaware that his tissues might be valuable. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW ADAPTED INTO A HBO FILM STARRING OPRAH WINFREY & ROSE BYRNE No dead woman has done more. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. We are learning as we go: “learn-ing by doing ” through interaction and “learning by being.”9 Steve Mann calls this practice existential learning: wear-ers become photoborgs,3 a type of cy-borg (cybernetic organism) whose pri-mary intent is image capture from the domains of the natural and artificial.5 This approach elides the distinction between the technology and the hu-man they coalesce into one. The Moore story is significant not only for its legal precedent, but also for the similarities and differences it has to Henrietta’s story. Social and environmental psychology studies of human-technology inter-action pose as many questions as an-swers. Racism is prevalent in this book through the limited availability of healthcare, unethical behaviors of the doctors, and how racism affected her family.
An amazing discovery was made Henrietta’s cell were immortal.
Ittle BY little, the introduc-tion of new body-worn tech-nologies is transforming the way people interact with their environment and one anoth-er, and perhaps even with themselves. Henrietta endured intense radium treatments, but she still died at the age of 31, leaving her husband and five children behind.
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