Setting Details
Henrietta Lacks moved in with her grandfather, Tommy Lacks, who lived in _________________, VA.
What is Clover?
This is the name of the person whose cells were used to create the HeLa cell line.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Henrietta had ______ children with her husband Day.
What is five?
For full credit:
1) Identify the speaker
2) Explain the context to the quotation
3) Explain how it relates to an ethical issue
"But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors?" (Skloot 9).
Speaker = Deborah Lacks
Context = Skloot interviews Deborah to get her perspective on her mother's story
Ethical Issue = Deborah's words here reflect the ongoing family struggle with poverty, despite the immensely profitable sale of HeLa cells for decades. This is unethical because the biomedical industry never sought ways to make sure the family was compensated for the sale of Henrietta's cells.
Rebecca Skloot first learned about Henrietta Lacks in a remedial biology course taught by ___________ __________.
Who is Donald Defler?
The residency where Henrietta grew up was referred to as the "________-_______"
What is home-house?
This is the name of the main character's daughter, who connects with Rebecca Skloot as she writes the book.
Who is Deborah Lacks?
Henrietta was diagnosed with _________ _________.
What is cervical cancer?
For full credit:
1) Identify the speaker
2) Explain the context to the quotation
3) Explain how it relates to an ethical issue
"'No note is made in the history at that time, or at six weeks' return visit that there is any abnormality of the cervix'" (Skloot 17).
Speaker = Dr. Howard Jones
Context = Dr. Jones is giving his report on a follow-up examination of Henrietta's cervix after she complained of a "knot" in her womb three months after giving birth at the same hospital
Ethical Issue = As the following paragraph suggests, it is nearly "impossible" that doctors would have missed the tumor in her cervix before, suggesting there may have been negligence or discrimination in her case.
Henrietta's official time of death was ___________________.
What is 12:15 AM, on October 4, 1951?
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where Henrietta received medical treatment, is located in ______________, MD.
What is Baltimore?
This is the name of Henrietta's husband, who also grew up with her.
Who is David "Day" Lacks?
The official name of the immortal, reproducing line of Henrietta's cells is _________.
What is HeLa?
For full credit:
1) Identify the speaker
2) Explain the context to the quotation
3) Explain how it relates to an ethical issue
"Henrietta printer her name on the blank space. A witness with illegible handwriting signed a line at the bottom of the form, and Henrietta signed another" (Skloot 31).
Speaker = Narrator/Rebecca Skloot
Context = Skloot is recounting the events leading up to doctors taking her cell samples
Ethical Issue = This passage reveals that, while Henrietta technically signed for the procedure, there was no informed consent on how the cells would be used or what rights she had over them.
George Papanicolaou, a Greek researcher, was responsible for developing a precancerous screening test called the ________ ________.
What is a pap smear?
Most of the chapters in Section 1 are set in the year ________, as this is when Henrietta received her initial diagnosis and treatment.
What is 1951?
This is the name of the doctor who first took Henrietta's cervical cancer cell sample.
Who is Dr. George Gey? (pronounced 'guy')
These are the names of the two dance clubs where Henrietta and Sadie would sneak out to at night:
1) Adams Bar
2) Twin Pines
For full credit:
1) Identify the speaker
2) Explain the context to the quotation
3) Explain how it relates to an ethical issue
"They recruited hundreds of African-American men with syphilis, then watched them die slow, painful, and preventable deaths, even after they realized penicillin could cure them" (Skloot 50).
1) Speaker = Rebecca Skloot
2) Context = Skloot is explaining her intentions in writing the book to professor Roland Patillo, who could get her in touch with the family.
3) In this quote, Skloot describes the infamous and unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study, conducted in the 1930s, which took advantage of and ultimately killed groups of poor, poorly educatedof black men, and was based on racist assumptions.
The liquid recipe Dr. Gey's team was hunting throughout Section 1 was for __________ _________.
What is culture medium?
This is the name of the growing industrial community in Maryland where Henrietta's family moved as part of the "Great Migration".
What is Turner Station?
This is the name of the doctor who infamously used research into an "immortal chicken heart" to develop the racist pseudoscience of eugenics.
Who is Alexis Carrel?
Cootie, one of Henrietta's surviving relatives, lives in _________ ________, a section of Clover, VA where Tommy Lacks' tobacco plantation used to be.
What is Lacks Town?
For full credit:
1) Identify the speaker
2) Explain the context to the quotation
3) Explain how it relates to an ethical issue
"I like your eyes" (Skloot 73).
1) Speaker = Courtney Speed
2) Context = Skloot travels to Turner Station and meets Courtney Speed, the owner of Speed's Grocery, a woman who is respected around town and knew the Lacks family
3) Ethical Issue Connection: This quote reveals the deep distrust the Lacks family and surrounding community have for reporters in general due to past ethical damages, but also shows us the trust Skloot wins by her sincerity, seen here in her "eyes".
In the context of the excerpted text on p.47 from Dr. TeLinde, what is the meaning of the term fait accompli?
Fait accompli = an act that is unable to be taken back once accomplished, such as a life-changing surgery like a hysterectomy.