Henrietta wasn’t the first African-American to be tested and researched, in the case of which, Skloot relayed information about a study at the Tuskegee Institute, “They recruited hundreds of African-American men with syphilis, then watched them die slow, painful, and preventable deaths, even after they realized penicillin could cure them” (Skloot 50). Medical research mainly focused on minorities in the early to middle twentieth century, with this in mind, these studies were where the immorality was rooted. Not to mention, to bring ill men in for the sole purpose of watching them die seemed pure evil. This study, along with hundreds of others, brought about the reason why African-Americans could no longer trust their doctors and hospitals. After Henrietta’s cells had been exposed to the world, a virologist by the name of Chester Southam began his own study of cancer research, “He repeated this process with about a dozen other cancer patients. He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells” (Skloot 128). In the first place, Southam’s research was extremely over the line in regards to cancer research. All things considered, to inject already sick patients with cancer cells is illogical, and although some scientists scrutinized this research, many more agreed with the study. Thankfully, policies and codes were made to prevent more research similar to Southam’s. Notably, he was never severely punished, which also represents the corruption of the medical research field. Consequently, the next scientist to try to create a cell line from cancer cells was David Golde, who took cells from a man named John Moore. Moore had hairy-cell leukemia which contained malignant blood cells in his spleen. Concerning the
Henrietta wasn’t the first African-American to be tested and researched, in the case of which, Skloot relayed information about a study at the Tuskegee Institute, “They recruited hundreds of African-American men with syphilis, then watched them die slow, painful, and preventable deaths, even after they realized penicillin could cure them” (Skloot 50). Medical research mainly focused on minorities in the early to middle twentieth century, with this in mind, these studies were where the immorality was rooted. Not to mention, to bring ill men in for the sole purpose of watching them die seemed pure evil. This study, along with hundreds of others, brought about the reason why African-Americans could no longer trust their doctors and hospitals. After Henrietta’s cells had been exposed to the world, a virologist by the name of Chester Southam began his own study of cancer research, “He repeated this process with about a dozen other cancer patients. He told them he was testing their immune systems; he said nothing about injecting them with someone else’s malignant cells” (Skloot 128). In the first place, Southam’s research was extremely over the line in regards to cancer research. All things considered, to inject already sick patients with cancer cells is illogical, and although some scientists scrutinized this research, many more agreed with the study. Thankfully, policies and codes were made to prevent more research similar to Southam’s. Notably, he was never severely punished, which also represents the corruption of the medical research field. Consequently, the next scientist to try to create a cell line from cancer cells was David Golde, who took cells from a man named John Moore. Moore had hairy-cell leukemia which contained malignant blood cells in his spleen. Concerning the