The Lacks Family
The Lacks family had ___ amount of children?
What is 10? (What do you think of the description of Henrietta’s childhood years in Clover? What are some shocking revelations about her upbringing, marriage, and having children?)
True or False: Lacks knew her cells would be used for scientific research...
What is false?
Henrietta's cells were different from all other samples in this way...
What is immortal cells?
The name "HeLa" came from where
What is the typical practice of first two letters in patients first name, and first two letters in patients last name?
Cancer is...
What is uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body?
Henrietta's new home...
What is tobacco plantation: the home-house?
The ethical guideline not followed by researchers and medical professionals...
What is informed consent?
The main problem that the scientists would run into with samples...
What is death?
The laws in place during this time...
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What type of cancer did Henrietta have...
What is cervical cancer?
Henrietta's husband, and father of her children at 14...
Who is Days?
Henrietta's feelings towards doctors and medical care...
What is fear, outcast, etc?
The author's use of "birth" implicates...
What is the inference about how her cells continued to grow outside of her body?
The place where Lacks received care...
What are the public wards at Johns Hopkins? (Why did David Lacks take Henrietta to the public wards at Johns Hopkins instead of a closer hospital?)
The element used to kill cancer cells during this time...
What is radium? (What is your impression of medical understanding and treatment of cervical cancer in 1951?)
Henrietta's second child, Elsie, was different in some way...
What is "touched:" epilepsy, mental retardation, or neurosyphilis? (in this time they did not use terms like this)
The doctor who willingly gave Herrietta's cells to others who asked...
Who is Dr. Gey? (Why did Gey choose to give away samples of HeLa to his colleagues? Do you think this was a good decision?)
The scientists ran into many problems trying to grow cells.. (at least three)
What is nutrients? What is difficult to obtain materials? What is sterility?
HeLa cells were used in the Cold War-era space race experiment...
What is testing cell behavior in zero gravity?
Type of carcinoma that was believed not to be deadly, like the invasive kind...
Carcinoma in situ (What is your impression of medical understanding and treatment of cervical cancer in 1951?)
This child plays an important role in the author obtaining information...
Who is Deborah Lacks? (What is your impression of Deborah? How does the author shape that impression?)
The doctors justification for not obtaining consent...
What is free medical care? (Do you agree or disagree with their reasoning?)
Henrietta's cancer cells had a significant impact on the development of this vaccine in the 1950s...
What is the polio vaccine?
The first doctor that Henrietta visited assumed the source of the lump was...
What is syphilis? (What stereotype or bias might this assumption be based upon?)
Two samples of tissue removed...
What is tumor cervical tissue and healthy cerival tissue?