Show:
Doctors
Family
Skloot
Plot
Potpourri
100
The head of tissue culture research at Johns Hopkins who hoped to find cancer's cause and cure with the use of malignant cells growing outside the body.
Who is George Gey?
100
Henrietta's oldest son who, after her death, eventually took care of the younger children.
Who is Lawrence?
100
The place where the author first heard about Henrietta Lacks.
What is a community college biology class?
100
The reason why Sadie believed Henrietta waited so long to see a doctor about her lump.
What is because she didn't want a doctor to take her womb so that she could no longer have children?
100
Deborah's cause of death.
What is a heart attack?
200
The gynecologist on duty when Henrietta first went to Johns Hopkins to have a sample taken of her lump.
Who is Howard Jones?
200
Moved in, along with his wife, with Day to supposedly "help take care of the children" after Henrietta's death, but ended up abusing Deborah.
Who is Galen?
200
The first family member the author called in order to learn more about Henrietta.
Who is Deborah?
200
What Mary saw that made her realize that Henrietta was a real person, not just a subject used for research.
What are Henrietta's painted toenails?
200
The one thing about Henrietta that Deborah was first unwilling to share with Skloot.
What is the medical record?
300
The doctor that injected patients (most without consent) with HeLa cells in order to explore the possible danger of developing cancer due to exposure to the cells during research.
Who is Chester Southam?
300
Had trouble with authority, was put in jail for murder and eventually changed his name.
Who is Joe/Zakariyya?
300
The gift the author gives to Deborah upon their first face to face meeting.
What is a photo of Henrietta's cells created by Christoph Lenguaer?
300
What significant even occurred while the family was burying Henrietta's body?
What is a bad storm?
300
The one character trait that Lawrence remembers about his mother.
What is "strict?"
400
Sent by Victor McKusick to take blood from the Lacks children in the hopes to sort out the HeLa contamination problem.
Who is Susan Hsu?
400
Sent to a hospital when she could no longer be cared for at home due to disabilities, including epilepsy.
Who is Elsie?
400
How the author paid for her research for the book.
What is student loans and credit cards?
400
This is how Henrietta's daughter-in-law Bobbette found out that Henrietta's cells were still alive and were being used for research.
What is through a conversation with a friend's brother-in-law about his research using HeLa cells.
400
Research into this sexually transmitted disease eventually uncovered how Henrietta's cancer started.
What is HPV?
500
Gave Deborah a photo of her mother's cells and later welcomed Deborah and Zakariyya into his lab.
Who is Christoph Lengauer?
500
Worried that Henrietta's cells could feel pain when used in research and suffered health problems due to stress associated with such concerns.
Who is Deborah?
500
The help promised by the author to members of the Lacks family if the book was eventually published.
What is a scholarship fund?
500
The troubling information Deborah and Skloot discovered about Elsie when they visited Crownsville in 2001 and examined her autopsy report.
What is the fact that, based on information and a photo included in the report, she was used in experiments conducted on patients with epilepsy.
500
This discovery eventually explained the mechanics of HeLa's immortality (the reason why the cells could continue to grow indefinitely).
What is the telomerase that constantly rebuilt the chromosomes' telomeres so they never grew old and never died.