The book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is about a poor African American woman, Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in the 1950s. During treatment, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital discovered that his cells were immortal. A sample of her cells was taken from her without her permission and used in research and some experiments. Those cells were called HeLa cells. She was treated for cancer but died because doctors waited too long to treat her. In this essay I want to discuss how the experiments conducted with Henrietta's cells were unethical and how the doctors only wanted them for their own needs. Doctors defend themselves because, unlike now, they had no laws to protect patients. The doctors and scientists in Henrietta's case took the cells for their own needs to experiment on people and try to make advances in the medical field. One experiment was conducted by Chester Southam, a cancer researcher and head of virology at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research (127). In this experiment, he injected voluntary prisoners into the arm and others...