Lacks Family
The main source of work for the Lacks Family back in Virginia.
What are tobacco farms?
A fancy word for the spread of cancer.
What is metastasis?
This surgeon was the one who scalped out a small sample of Henrietta's cervix.
Who is Dr. Lawrence Wharton?
This research institute, located in Alabama, has a shameful history of infecting African American men with syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
This fancy word helps doctors respect a person’s right to make their own decision
What is autonomy?
The name of Henrietta’s eldest daughter, who died in an institution.
Who is Elsie Lacks?
The charity hospital that had the resources to treat severe medical cases for all patients.
What is John Hopkin?
He is a gynecologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins who believed that studying both healthy and cancerous cervical cells could improve medical research. He worked closely with Dr. Gey’s lab.
Who is Dr. Richard Wesley Telinde?
Founded in 1876 for the express purpose of serving the poor, this medical research institution recently lost $800 million due to Trump administration cuts.
What is Johns Hopkins?
This principle of fairness is relevant to the time of the 1950s when Black and white people used separate schools, restaurants, and hospitals.
What is justice?
The relation between David “Day” Lacks and Henrietta Lacks.
What is married cousins?
He is the scientist who created the first immortal human cell line, called HeLa. He and his wife, Margaret, worked for years to grow cells that would not die in the lab.
Who is George Gey?
HeLa cells enabled Jonas Salk in 1951 at the University of Pittsburgh to produce a vaccine to prevent this terrible viral disease.
What is polio?
Doctor Southam lacked this ethic when he did studies on his patients without knowing if it would be good or bad to them.
What is beneficence?
What made Zakarriya so angry at David Lacks following Henrietta's death.
What is unmarked grave?
Exposure to this substance can cause cancer, but it can also kill off cancer in correct doses.
What is Radium?
He is the pathologist who studied Henrietta’s biopsy and discovered that her tumor was a very aggressive cervical cancer. He was also one of the doctors who told her about the diagnosis.
Who is Dr. Howard Jones?
An order signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, freeing Henrietta Lacks' ancestors from the bondage of slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Another word for the principle of “do no harm,” aka the Hippocratic oath, invented by Greek philosopher Hippocrates.
What is non-maleficence?
This common procedure reduces cervical cancer. Your papa wouldn't need it.
What is a pap smear?
He is the researcher who used HeLa cells in unethical experiments. He injected the cells into patients without telling them, trying to study how cancer spreads.
Who is Chester Southam?