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very differently if publishing this book in 1951 because back in 1951, racism was a lot worse than it is now and in 1976, laws are also very different then in 1951, when HeLa was going on, they did not tell her family about it, they got no money for this because they didn’t know what was going on, most people only knew about the HeLa cells not about Henrietta’s life story. In the article/blog White Coat Underground it states “Henrietta Lacks was treated at a time when medical ethics were quite…

Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman born on August 1, 1920 in Southern Virginia. She is best known as the woman with the immortal cells. She was diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer in 1951 at John Hopkins University by Dr. George Gey. She died in 1951 at the age of 31. During her cervical-cancer biopsy Dr. Gey snipped samples from her tissue without the consent of the patient to run studies on the cells that were grown from the tumor. That is how Henrietta Lacks made one of the…

Henrietta Lacks was born 97 years ago on August 1, 1920 in Virginia. She was born into a very poor household and with 8 siblings. Henrietta’s mother, Eliza Pleasant, died when Henrietta was only 4 years of age during childbirth. After her mother’s unexpected death, her father moved the children to Clover, VA. Henrietta worked on her grandfather’s tobacco farm growing up. Henrietta at the age of 14 had her first child with her cousin, David. She later married David when she was 20 years old. The…

utilitarianism, may be more painful than any possible benefit. It becomes clear while reading the novel, that Henrietta’s unapproved donation to Dr. Gey changed the lives of many. Especially when considering the widely known medical discoveries made possible by HeLa, the pain, unknown, and deception Henrietta Lacks experienced seems quite minor. During the height…

combined with his cooperation with Richard TeLinde resulted in the production of the HeLa cell culture. He as a medical professional found that HeLa cells “could grow floating in a culture medium that was constantly stirred by a magnetic device, an important technique Gey developed, now called growing in suspension.(Rebecca Skloot) this allowed the mass production of HeLa cells. The ability to mass produce HeLa cell cultures combined with their superior weakness to the poliovirus and lower…

Henrietta Lacks, originally named as Loretta, was the daughter of Eliza and Johnny Pleasant. After her mother’s death, Henrietta went to go live with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, in Clover, Virginia. Tommy was a small tobacco farmer who had already taken in some of his other grandchildren. Additionally, Tommy and other Lacks lived closely together and the small area where they lived had become known as Lacks Town. As a beautiful young girl, Henrietta attracted many boys, including her cousin…

Henrietta’s cancerous cells were the first to become the first human cell line, called HeLa. After doing some research Rebecca later learned that in the 21 century, HeLa made some of the most important discoveries. Even so, little was known about Henrietta Lacks so that’s when Rebecca decides to engage with the closest person to Henrietta, her daughter Deborah. The story continues to say that Henrietta…

Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh is a 1997 one-hour BBC documentary by Adam Curtis about Henrietta Lacks and her HeLa cells. It won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Around this time, this documentary gave the first major exposure of Henrietta Lacks’s story to the public. Consequently, many more articles, books, and even songs and an episode on Law & Order were made about Henrietta Lacks, her cells, and her story. To put if briefly, the…

modern medicine. Her cells would become known simply as HeLa cells: taken from her first and last name. The book does more than just focus on her and her cancer cells, it shows what life was like for her family after the HeLa cells became a groundbreaking discovery in medicine. Without the racism of 1950s south the world would not have a cure for polio. By removing the human aspect of the cells, the world was given a gift of maybe one day using Hela for a cure to all. Rebecca Skloot came up with…

Who is that person? That person is known as Henrietta Lacks who was an African- American female who is deemed as HeLa among the medical community. By most, she is referred as being the most important female in medical history and is commended for being the reason for the modernization and revolution of modern medicine. With, in this paper, I will gain feedback from…