In 1985 a book by Michael Gold came out about Walter Nelson-Rees’s campaign to stop HeLa contamination. The book was called A Conspiracy of Cells: One Woman’s Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal it Caused. Deborah was reading the book when she discovered information he had not given permission for the public to know. “No one in Henrietta’s family had ever seen those medical records, let alone given anyone at Hopkins permission to release them to a journalist for publication in a book the whole world can see.” (Skloot pg. 210) The Lacks family had no intention of giving permission for anyone to see Henrietta’s records, especially if they have yet to see them. This just shows how the media can affect situations in a non-positive
