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    Informed Consent: The Rights of the Patient and the Responsibilities of Researchers In Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‚ a major issue is presented: the absence of informed consent in medical practices. This is predominately seen in 1950’s cancer patient Henrietta Lacks. Henrietta was diagnosed with cervical cancer at John Hopkins hospital shortly after giving birth to her oldest child‚ and was treated with radiation. Neither she nor her family knew the extreme dangers she faced

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks In the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot‚ Skloot is a young white woman that becomes fascinated by Henrietta Lacks when she learns of her in a community college biology class. Henrietta Lacks was a young black woman who was never spoken of. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of thirty. When she received treatment for that cancer doctors unknowingly stole her cervical cells. These cells were named HeLa. In Skloots

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    Cited: Skloot‚ Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. New York: Broadway Paperbacks‚ 2011. Print. "Vaccines and Preventable Diseases: Polio Disease - Questions and Answers." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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    1. What illness did Cootie have as a child? Cootie illness was Polio; he got sick at the age nine. 2. Cootie seems to know and understand a little bit about HeLa cells‚ but he believes that Henrietta’s spirit is still present in her cells. What does Cootie think about the reason that HeLa cells were used to develop a polio vaccine? Because Henrietta saw how bad Cootie’s condition was and she always wanted to fix it. 3. Where does Cootie think Henrietta’s cancer came from? Cootie thinks

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    In the book The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks written by Rebecca Skloot‚ she explains that Henrietta was a remarkable individual who is an icon for science. Henrietta Lacks was a person whom everyone enjoyed to be around but she was covered with tumors that were cancerous. Henrietta Lacks was a woman with five children‚ a husband‚ living in Baltimore where she went to John Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins hospital was a facility where the blacks‚ people who could not afford health insurance could go

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    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Questions for Ch. 20-32 Chapter Twenty: The HeLa Bomb 1. What did Stanley Gartler discover about eighteen of the most commonly used cell cultures? Stanly Gartler found out that the cell cultures all contain a rare genetic marker called G6PD-A which was present almost exclusively in black Americans. 2. How did the scientific community respond to Gartler’s theory about HeLa contamination? I think Skloot puts it best: "Gartler’s findings did not go over

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    HeLa Cells: Taken Without Consent and Used for Profit HeLa cells have been around for 65 years. Most people have never heard of HeLa cells. Medical researchers‚ scientist and biologist know all about them. HeLa cells are a group of cells or “line” taken from a patient and used for scientific research. These groups or lines are usually named after the donor. The cells get their name from the first two letters of the first and last name of the donor. In this case‚ the donor was a poor black woman named

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    Huntington’s disease is a fatal inherited disease that causes the gradual break down of cells in the brain. HD ( Huntington’s disease) causes deterioration of ones mental and physical abilities during their prime working years and unfortunately has no cure. In 1872‚ HD was first recognized by a 22 year old American doctor. George Huntington wrote the first ever literature on this disease‚ the paper called “On Chorea” which was later renamed as Huntington’s Disease. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries

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    Malik Taylor Bio/Lit Immortality Essay Mrs. Korb‚ Ms. Parks‚ Mrs. Tayse‚ Mrs. Green Skloot ends the book with a quote from Deborah about immortality. In the case of HeLa‚ there is literal immortality‚ but Debora’s quote raises question about spiritual immortality as well. What does it mean to be “immortal” ? Analyze the various ways that Henrietta and Deborah achieve immortality. What does it means to be immortal? Immortal

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    1. What was the chief injustice of the book? The chief injustice of this book was the lack of informed consent and repeated privacy violations. Henrietta Lacks‚ as a patient at John Hopkins Hospital‚ had not been informed that samples from her cervix had been collected‚ nor had she been asked if she was interested in being a donor (p. 33). No one bothered to explain to the Lacks family the science behind HeLa cells‚ and the so the family was never informed of the removal‚ distribution‚ or sale of

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