Soon after their help, she was taken off of all meds and treatments. So, Henrietta's cousin Emmett and his brothers and friends whom Henrietta had fed a helped a lot when they moved to there, and they donated 8 pints of blood to help her.
Why does Henrietta's cousin Cootie believe that HeLa cells were used to help develop a polio vaccine? He believed that spirits visited the Lacks' town and caused disease, Henrietta's sickness was either doctor made or spirit made Mississippi Appendectomies Unnecessary hysterectomies performed on women to keep them from reproducing When Henrietta's doctor refers to her as "a miserable specimen," what does it reveal about his attitude toward her? she was black (miserable) and they saw her as nothing more than a specimen in a lab What happened when the hospital refused to give Henrietta any more blood? She had gotten so much blood from the blood bank that the doctor wrote a note that said she had to stop all transfusions until "her deficit with the blood bank was made up". Given her descriptions of Henrietta, how does Skloot want the reader to view Henrietta? beautiful, fearless, lively, and devoted to her 5 children What did Nobel Prize-winner Alexis Carrel do in his research? Awarded the Nobel Prize for his blood vessel suturing technique.
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Gey willing to share Henrietta's tissue with other doctors? To further medical research and he had plenty How did Jim Crow impact Henrietta's visit to Johns Hopkins Hospital? She was only allowed at John Hopkins cuz she was black - other hospitals didn't welcome black people- they still weren't treated fairly Why did many doctors feel justified in using tissue from patients, like Henrietta, without their consent? Because they were being treated for free What information did a doctor withhold from Henrietta that upset her the most? That the cancer treatments would leave her infertile Although her cancer spread, Henrietta was initially diagnosed with what kind of cancer? Cervical Cancer When she was a young girl in Clover, Virginia, what did Henrietta's family do for a living? tobacco farmers What happened to Elsie Lacks? She had epilepsy and died when she was 15- sh e was severely abused Initially, why did Deborah agree to talk with Skloot? she wanted people to talk about her mom as a person and not just her cells What happened during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Read Part 1, Life, Chapter 6 What did George Gey hope to accomplish with his HeLa cell research? fix polio virus What was Margaret Gey's significant contribution to the development of the immortal cell line? she established the sterilization protocols to keep the lab clean What is "Benevolent deception," (a common practice when Henrietta was being treated)? When the doctors withheld fundamental information from the patients- with Henrietta, they held information because they thought she couldn't handle it What was Henrietta's final request? make sure her children were taken care of -for Day to take care of their children. TeLinde want a sample of Henrietta's tumor? he was a cervical cancer expert Why was Dr.
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