![]() What questions does Deborah have about her mother?Ĩ. ![]() How does Deborah Lacks initially respond to Skloot’s request for information?ħ. What does Pattillo tell Skloot about Elsie Lacks?Ħ. Why do you think Pattillo agreed to help Skloot contact Henrietta’s family?ĥ. What do the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Mississippi Appendectomies suggest about the history of African Americans and medicine?Ĥ. Paraphrase the information on page 50 describing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.ģ. How is he connected to both Henrietta Lacks and George Gey?Ģ. What important information did Henrietta’s doctor fail to give her before starting her cancer treatment? How did she react when this information was eventually shared with her?ġ. Why do you think Henrietta initially chose not to tell people about her cancer diagnosis? What does this decision suggest about Henrietta’s personality?ħ. What specific details let the reader know that sending Elsie away was difficult for Henrietta?Ħ. Why did Henrietta and David (Day) Lacks decide to place Elsie in the Hospital for the Negro Insane?ĥ. According to Ethel’s cousins, why did she dislike Henrietta?Ĥ. After her diagnosis and treatment, how did Henrietta behave? What can you infer about her personality based on this behavior?Ģ. What is the implication of the author’s decision to use the term “birth” to describe the initial growth of HeLa cells?Ĭhapter Five: “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside”ġ. Once HeLa started growing, was Henrietta informed that her cells were being used in Gey’s research?Ĩ. Do you think this was a good decision? Explain your answer.ħ. Gey chose to give away samples of HeLa to his colleagues almost immediately. What happened to the HeLa cells that Mary cultured?Ħ. Explain how Gey’s roller-tube culturing technique works.ĥ. Based on the descriptions of Gey found on pages 38–39, offer three adjectives that best describe his personality.Ĥ. Summarize the main obstacles Gey and his assistants faced in their effort to grow cells.ģ. Were cells taken only from black patients? Were black patients generally treated differently from white patients in the early 1950s? Explain your answers.ġ. Do you think Henrietta would have given explicit consent to have a tissue sample used in medical research if she had been asked? Do you think she would have understood what was being asked of her? Explain your answers.ġ1. Based on this statement, do you believe TeLinde and Guy had the right to obtain a sample from her cervix to use in their research?ġ0. Analyze the consent statement that Henrietta signed on page 31. Explain how TeLinde and Gey’s relationship led to Gey obtaining a tissue sample from Henrietta’s tumor.ĩ. What was George Gey’s position at Johns Hopkins?ħ. How did TeLinde hope to prove that his hypothesis about cervical cancer was correct?Ħ. How did doctors justify using patients in public hospital wards as medical research subjects without obtaining their consent or offering them financial compensation? Do you agree or disagree with their reasoning? Explain your answer.ĥ. Explain how the development of the Pap smear improved the survival rate of women diagnosed with cervical cancer.Ĥ. TeLinde’s position in the debate over the treatment of cervical cancer.ģ. How are different types of cancer categorized?Ģ. Contrast the working conditions of black workers and white workers at the Sparrows Point Steel Mill.ġ. How did Pearl Harbor change life in Turner Station?ġ0. What are the connotations of the two sets of terms?ĩ. Compare the medical terms describing Elsie’s condition with the terms used by Henrietta’s friends and family. What was different about Henrietta’s second child, Elsie?Ĩ. How old was Henrietta when she had her first child with Day?ħ. Describe the relationship between Crazy Joe and Henrietta.Ħ. Locate a passage that you found particularly effective or memorable, and explain why you selected it.ĥ. Skloot uses vivid imagery and details to describe Henrietta’s childhood in Clover. What are the connotations of the term “home-house”? What does this term suggest about the values of the Lacks family?Ĥ. ![]() ![]() Why did Henrietta end up being raised by her grandfather, Tommy Lacks?Ģ. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Study Guide Questions: Chapters 2-6ĭirections: As you read, answer the following questions in complete sentences.ġ.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |