In 1951 no one had successfully grown cells outside of the body. “HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred years”(Skloot, 2010, p.4). In the1950s medical research seemed more important than human rights. The medical practitioners in the 1950s never saw humans as humans; rather they analyzed them as tissues and bones, and used their tissues for medical research without their consent. “Like many doctors of his era, TeLende of used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge”(Skloot,2010, p.29).Even though the surgeon who took Lacks’ tissue samples without her consent seemed heartless, the medical practitioners in the 1950s had a general practice of taking tissue
