Henrietta Lacks: Article Analysis

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The connection between "Poverty and Gender" and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) in the Hopkins hospital that was for sick, poor people and most of the patients were black people who could not pay for their medical bill (Skloot, 2010, p. 15). In other words, the disadvantage that Henrietta Lacks had was that it was the only hospital that attended to black people. Probably there could have been other hospitals farther away than attending to black people but the problem was that Henrietta and Day could not pay the medical bill because they did not have a good economy, they were poor. Some of the connections that exist between "Poverty and Gender" and “Busted” podcast is Matthew Desmond says, "We are all complicit in poverty." we all