My role as a social worker would have been to help the family as much as I can get through the complications they faced. I would offer services like educating them about informed consent, provide crisis counseling, and I would try to get every member of the Lacks family the free health insurance they obviously deserve. Slavin who died 21years ago, has special cells like how Henrietta has special cells. Slavin cells produced extremely valuable proteins that were important for scientific research. However, what made Slavin’s story different from Henrietta’s story was Slavin's he had control over his cells he did not just consider his cells part of his body; they were his business, his property. Slavin was one of the first people in history to
