Background & Family
This was the name of Henrietta's hometown in Virginia.
What is Clover?
This scientist's lab successfully grew Henrietta's cells.
Who is George / Dr. Gey
This lab assistant helped care for HeLa cells in Gey's lab.
Who is Mary Kubicek?
Henrietta could not understand what was wrong with her because doctors were using ____ ____ like cancer that she didn't know.
What are medical terms?
Henrietta’s daughter Elsie was institutionalized at this specific Maryland facility for the "Negro Insane.
What is Crownsville State Hospital?
Henrietta's cousin and husband went by this nickname.
Who is Day?
This treatment was used to treat/kill Henrietta's cervical cancer.
What is radium/radiation?
This historical medical practice involves doctors withholding a painful diagnosis or truth from a patient under the guise that it is for their own good.
What is "benevolent deception"?
Henrietta’s tumors grew so rapidly and aggressively that they physically blocked this pathway, preventing her from urinating.
What is her urethra?
What is Turner Station?
Henrietta and Day moved to this city for better opportunities.
What is Baltimore?
Unlike cells experimented on previously, HeLa cells kept doing this in the lab.
What is dividing/surviving?
The excitement around HeLa cells often caused scientists to overlook this ethical issue.
What is consent/permission?
Doctors noted that Henrietta's entire abdominal cavity was filled with tumors that looked like these small, round gems.
What are pearls?
This was the first successful cell culture experiment.
What is Carrel's Immortal Chicken Heart?
This steel company employed many black workers, including Day.
What is Bethlehem Steel?
Doctors described Henrietta using this negative and dismissive word in her medical records. (Hint: "____ Specimen")
What is miserable?
Gey freely shared HeLa cells instead of doing this with them.
What is keeping them private/patenting them?
To replace her failing blood supply during her agonizing final weeks, a massive line of these people formed at the hospital to donate.
Who are her coworkers (from the steel mill), friends, and family?
This study took advantage of poor and uneducated black individuals struggling with illness.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
While Henrietta was dying and bedridden, her main focus stayed on this.
What is her family?
Henrietta described this feeling to be spreading inside her.
What is blackness?
The radiation treatments Henrietta received made her _______. (Hint: reproductive complication)
What is infertile?
This is the total amount of time that passed between Henrietta's initial medical diagnosis and her death.
What is eight months
This scientist claimed George Gey told her he met with Henrietta right before her death, though most historical accounts contradict this.
Who is Laure Aurelian?