Henrietta Herself
This is Henriettas Birth name.
Loretta Pleasant
Henriettas youngest daughter
Deborah Lacks
The first immortal human cells ever grown in culture.
HeLa cells
Henrietta’s cells were taken without this.
Consent
Rebecca Skloot is this by profession.
science writer
The hospital where Henrietta was diagnosed with cancer.
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The child raised by Henriettas cousin after her dead
Joe (Zakariyya) Lacks
HeLa cells were used to develop this life-saving vaccine.
Polio vaccine
This practice of not informing patients was common in the 1950s.
non-disclosure or lack of informed consent
Skloot first heard about HeLa cells in this kind of class.
Biology class
The year Henrietta died.
1951
Henriettas husband
David "Day" Lacks
The scientist who first grew HeLa cells in his lab.
George Gey
This infamous study paralleled Henrietta’s story in issues of medical ethics.
Tuskegee Syphilis study
She created this foundation to support the Lacks family.
Henrietta lacks foundation
Henrietta was buried in this state.
This relative of Henriettas helped Rebecca gain the family's trust
Cousin cootie
HeLa cells helped in research on this type of radiation exposure.
Nuclear radiation
The family was not told about the HeLa cells until this decade.
1970s
Rebecca struggled to gain the trust of this family member the most.
Deborah Lacks
Henrietta cancer was classified as this type of tumor
aggressive adenocarcinoma of the cervix
The family lived in this segregated Baltimore neighborhood
Turner Station
These were discovered to have contaminated other cell cultures due to HeLa's rapid growth.
The field that studies the ethical implications of biological research.
Bioethics
The amount of time Rebecca spent researching and writing the book.
10 years