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    Henrietta Lacks was a black woman who grew up in Clover, Virginia (Zielinski). She was born in 1920 as Loretta Pleasant (Biography.com Editors), and was affectionately known as “Hennie” (Brown). She was raised by her grandfather and lived with her cousin, David Lacks (Biography.com Editors). Henrietta worked as a tobacco farmer along with her family (Zielinski), and she also sold tobacco at auctions (Brown). She attended school up until sixth grade (Brown). Henrietta and her cousin Lacks later got married and had a total of 5 children. She had her first child when she was only 14 years of age (Biography.com Editors). One of her daughters, by the name of Elsie, ended up living in the “Hospital for the Negro Insane” (Biography.com Editors). Elsie…

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    patients in the area and that it offered segregated medical care. The gynaecologist in charge, Dr. Howard Jones, reports that he was impressed when he saw the lesion since it did not look like cancer, as it was purple in colour and bled very easily on touching. By interviewing the medical practitioners in charge, the documentary gives the viewers a clearer and more credible idea of the situation. However, a medical practitioners commentary tends to be limited to their observations of the patient…

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    After Day granted permission, Gey went on to perform the autopsy and kept samples of her bladder, bowel, kidney, etc. to use for the “HeLa factory” (Skloot, 93). Instead of viewing Henrietta as a person, Gey viewed her as a gold mine for medical advances. After he gained access to her cells, he became the director of what happened to them and chose to medically exploit them without giving Henrietta any acknowledgment. He had even released a false name, Helen Lane, to “throw journalists off the…

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    This was in know why any form of informed consent because the treatment that Lacks was undergoing, was radiation treatment. I believe it was unethical of the doctors to collect samples of Lacks without her knowing that she didn’t agree to. In addition, I believe this was also due to the lack of African-Americans having exercised rights through the early 1950s which may have been a factor into why the doctors didn’t consider Lacks approval of the decision of them collecting samples of her. Upon…

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    I've been reading the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. This book is about a black woman who died of a cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Doctors took a cell from her cervix without any consent of her or her family. Her cells are still alive today, growing and multiplying. After this event her family will never be the same. The family discovered it more than two decades later that part of Henrietta was still alive and has been…

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    In Rebecca Skloot’s book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author reveals a real-life story about the life of Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman who was diagnosed with a fast-growing cervical cancer at a very young age. The cells retrieved from her cervical tumor, later termed “HeLa”, became the first immortal cell that could survive in the lab and replicate continuously without dying. These cells later became key components to the development of many…

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    In Skloot’s (2010) book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, the author reveals the story about the life of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who was diagnosed with a fast-growing cervical cancer at a young age. The cells retrieved from her cervical tumor became the first immortal cell that could survive in the lab and replicate continuously without dying. Without the consent of Henrietta Lacks and her family, these cells later became key components to the development of many…

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    In class we were instructed to watch the 1997 Documentary on Henrietta Lacks, “The Way of All Flesh” that was directed by Adam Curtis and produced by Joe Duplantier. This documentary highlights the importance of Henrietta Lack’s cells in the science community and how they impacted the research that was being done on cancer cells. Henrietta Lack’s was a female African American who suffered from cervical cancer. She was one of the patients being treated by Dr. Guy and unfortunately she ended up…

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    and her family would not have been left thoughtless of their cell theft. If the family did not have a financial crisis, they wouldn 't have been craving to work and participate in medicine studies. Setting her name in the medical society would have been much more efficient if she was white and had power. As said before, the accomplishments made by Henrietta and the Lacks family were not given any credit. This brought challenges to discover HeLa cells and to be given a name for their studies.…

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    doctor name George Gey was working at the hospital, him and his colleagues were working in the lab trying to grow the first immortal human cell that could live outside the body and multiplies over time but they have been failing for years. While Henrietta was at the hospital some of her cells were taken without a consent and her tissue was going to change things when Mary, Gey assistant found out that Henrietta cell multiplied and she named it HeLa. The name HeLa comes from the first two…

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