Johns Hopkins

Due to the laws that enforced racial segregation during the Jim Crow period, African Americans Like Henrietta Lacks had less access to health care. Even when African American patients were treated in John Hopkins, they were used as research materials without their consents. They were taken advantage of because they were living in poverty, lacked education and proper understanding of informed consent. Like many doctors and researchers of that time, Richard…

and Wolfe’s (2017) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks For three decades, scientists had been looking for human cells that could be successfully multiplied outside the human body and much of their efforts failed until 1951, when doctors in the Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore collected a cancerous tissue sample from a colored woman, Henrietta Lacks, without her consent. Her tissue sample is significant as it allowed scientists to conduct tests on human cells repeatedly without running…

Larry D. Eldridge, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, argues that the widespread beliefs of torture, isolation, and inhumane treatment of mentally ill patients during colonial times are inaccurate based on his own analysis of multiple primary sources within, “’Crazy Brained: Mental Illness in Colonial America.” Contrary to the conclusions of other historians, Eldridge’s research found that mental illness, primarily, was not as widespread as previously thought. He also…

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” dives into the story of an African-American woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died at a young age shortly after, leaving behind 5 children, a husband, and many cousins. When Henrietta was at John Hopkins being treated for her cancer, the doctors took a sliver of her tumor and cultured it to see if they could make the cell “immortal”. This all happened back in the 50’s when colored people weren’t seen as equal citizens to white people. Because…

my first semester at ECC, my composition class studied the book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot. The book was written based on a true story about Henrietta Lacks and the unethical treatment and research done on her by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. Henrietta Lacks received radiation treatments for cancer, which charred the exterior of her body and eventually spread the disease throughout her body even more. At first the treatment worked as it dissipated the tumor, but…

President Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson’s educational background in history and political science, experience as a college professor and president of Princeton University, along with his performance as the Governor of New Jersey, led to his election as the twenty-eighth President of the United States, allowing him to implement his strong idealistic views, and transform America’s domestic and foreign policies. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia (Nordholt…

of 14 had her first child with her cousin, David. She later married David when she was 20 years old. The couple went on to have 5 children. Henrietta at the age of 31 felt a mass on her cervix and was taken to see Dr. Howard Jones, a doctor at John Hopkins hospital. Dr. Jones, without consent, took tissue samples of the troublesome mass and sent them to…

Social media is still rapidly growing as a daily part of human interaction for a very wide age group. Most activity on sites such as Facebook involves personal communication and browsing websites, but due to its massive popularity, social media has also become an important communication tool among professionals to a point where in some cases it is almost a necessity. Calvin Mann (2013) states, “After a few months away, I've been forced back to Facebook. It's a shame that it's become such a…

John F. Kennedy once said, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all” (BrainyQuote). In order to make a well-educated presidential vote, one must be well informed on the candidates at hand. Failing to know key aspects about the candidate puts the entire democracy in danger because the right to vote is then wasted. There are countless aspects of a candidate’s life that are crucial to note when attempting to better understand the position and viewpoints of a candidate.…

I always knew there would be a point in time where I would have to choose a career and I've always had an interest in being something medical so I decided I would research about how to become an anesthesiologist. The reason I choose this topic is actually kind of a dumb reason. I've always was interested in a medical job but what really got me thinking of having a medical job was because of the show Grey's Anatomy. It is a show about surgeons/doctors in a hospital. I always knew I probably…