![]() ![]() Henrietta Lack’s cervical cancer cells where harvested to create advances for medical science. ![]() Matteo was bred and used to be harvested for his organs to provide life for El Patron. Now the connection to the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks lies in the idea of what can you use people for. If you are into the idea of clones and that section of bioethics then this is the book for you! it deals with all those things and it really shows Matteo for what he is, a clone who has ambitions and wants and emotions, just like you or me. taking someones free will away is no different from killing them in my opinion. they are forced to work until they die, and they don’t do anything unless they are told to. These people are forced to work with no free will because of the computer chip in their brain. Now the other bioethical issue at hand is the Immigrant workers. Other than that, there was nothing different about it. he seems like a normal person and the only difference was that he had a barcode tattoo on his foor. Whenever we see Matt, he has emotions and the curiosity of a child, as he is one for the first part of the book. I always saw Matt as a person, as a character, and that is what the author aimed to do. This treatment seems harsh to us because we think that people shouldn’t be treated like animals. The Alacran all move to different wings of the house because of the fear that he can contaminate them. one character in the Alacran House calls him a “filthy beast” and decides that he should be treated as so, locking him in a room with sawdust to use as litter, and such abusive treatment. There are many Bioethical issues presented in the novel, the first one being clone rights and which begets the question, are clones people and should they have rights? When you read the book and see the way that the people treat him once they found out he was a clone, it sounds brutal and disgusting. The people in the country are mostly immigrants who tried and failed to cross the border, and were implanted with a chip in their brain to make them work without having any free will of their own. Matteo (clone) lives in the country of Opium, a strip of land between the United States and Mexico in which El Patron rules over. A little backstory before i talk about the issue at hand. The House of the Scorpion is a novel written by Nancy Farmer that tells the story of Matteo Alacran, a young clone who was made for the sole purpose of giving his organs to the original 148 year old Matteo Alacran (known as El Patron), a powerful drug lord who wishes to live as long as possible. ![]()
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