Бессмертная жизнь Генриетты Лакс

Kto imeet pravo na nashe telo, ili ego chasti, ili biomaterial, vzi͡atyĭ dli͡a analizov: my, vrachi, uchenye?. . Vpervye udalosʹ kulʹtivirovatʹ "bessmertnye" kletki chelovecheskogo tela v 1950-kh. Ėto bukvalʹno perevernulo vsi͡u medit͡sinskui͡u nauku. Kletki HeLa pomogli razrabotatʹ vakt͡siny ot poliomielita, raskrytʹ sekrety rakovykh zabolevaniĭ, virusov i vlii͡anii͡a i͡adernogo vzryva; oni pomogli sdelatʹ vazhnye shagi v izuchenii iskusstvennogo oplodotvorenii͡a, klonirovanii͡a i sostavlenii͡a geneticheskikh kart. I neizbezhno stali predmetom "kupli-prodazhi": odni bogateli, drugie i ne podozrevali, chto nad nimi provodi͡at "opyty". Teperʹ uchenye mogli priostanavlivatʹ razvitie kletok s li͡uboĭ periodichnostʹi͡u na proti͡azhenii ėksperimenta, chtoby sravnitʹ reakt͡sii͡u tekh ili inykh kletok na lekarstvennyĭ preparat cherez odnu, dve ili shestʹ nedelʹ. Ėto kniga - dramatichnai͡a istorii͡a o sudʹbe prostoĭ zhenshchiny, kotorai͡a podarila miru svoi bessmertnye kletki, o chestnykh i nechestnykh vrachakh, o sudebnykh batalii͡akh, rozhdenii bioėtiki. Krasivoe i dramatichnoe nauchnoe issledovanie, ot kotorogo nevozmozhno otorvatʹsi͡a.

Who has the right to our body, or its parts, or the biomaterial taken for analysis: Are we doctors, scientists?. . For the first time, it was possible to cultivate "immortal" cells of the human body in the 1950s. It literally turned the whole medical science upside down. HeLa cells have helped develop polio vaccines, uncover the secrets of cancer, viruses, and the effects of nuclear detonation; they have helped take important steps in the study of artificial insemination, cloning, and genetic mapping. And they inevitably became the subject of "purchase and sale": some rich people, others did not even suspect that they were being "experimented on". Now, scientists could suspend cell development at any frequency during the experiment in order to compare the response of certain cells to a drug after one, two, or six weeks. This book is a dramatic story about the fate of a simple woman who gave the world her immortal cells, about honest and dishonest doctors, about court battles, and the birth of bioethics. A beautiful and dramatic scientific study, from which it is impossible to break away.