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+1. Who wrote The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and what year was it
+published?
+
+Rebecca Skloot wrote and published it in 2010.
+
+2. What hospital treated Henrietta Lacks?
+
+Johns Hopkins treated Henrietta Lacks.
+
+3. What are HeLa cells?
+
+HeLa cells are the "immortal cell line" derived from Henrietta's
+cervical cancer. They are immortal because they can reproduce without
+becoming "senescent."
+
+4. What year did Henrietta Lacks pass away?
+
+Henrietta Lacks passed away in 1951.
+
+5. What genre is this book? (Hint: it's not novel)
+
+This is a cultural history.
+
+6. Who was the first person to culture the HeLa cells?
+
+George Gey was the first to culture it, but the Tuskegee Institute was
+the first to mass produce it.
+
+7. What is the ethical dilemma the author lays out?
+
+The author contrasts the widespread medical benefits and opportunities
+given by Henrietta's immortal cell line with the Lacks family's
+condition. 
+
+8. What concepts or themes from other readings appear in The Immortal
+Life of Henrietta Lacks?
+
+Medical Apartheid's history of black people's distrust of medicine, both
+explicitly in the segment with Bobetta Lacks talking about doctors
+grabbing people and implicitly in the ethical dilemma and in how the
+doctors hid information from her family.
+
+9. What medical innovations have the HeLa cells made possible? Why?
+
+HeLa cells have improved research practices and made possible many new
+tests on in vitro tissue for medical therapies like the polio vaccine.
+The primary reason is that the HeLa cells reproduce consistently but are
+susceptible to disease like a normal human cell, so vaccines can be
+trialed against cells to be infected and get comparable results in
+vitro. They have also developed general tissue research practices like
+freezing cells or controlled somatic cell fusion because HeLa cells are
+abundant enough to try out these possibly damaging techniques. This has
+allowed innovation like corneal transplants
+
+10. If health describes rules, regulations, and norms that contribute to
+physical and mental wellness, what insights does The Immortal Life of
+Henrietta Lacks make about "health?" Please use direct quotations.
+
+The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks describes a transformation in
+medical research ethics to benefit patients' and subjects' health
+outcomes. Skloot compares the Lacks family's injustice with other
+unethical experiments to establish the active role research subjects
+should take in these projects. Lawrence Lacks summarizes their personal
+injustice well with, "If our mother so important to science, why can't
+we get health insurance?" (168) They have been kept in the dark on their
+mother, helped by the fact that they didn't inform Henrietta either.
+
+Skloot is arguing for the development of standards like legal standing
+of the Nuremberg Code as established by Southam's unethical experiments.
+Southam's injections of cancer into unconsenting subjects is described
+as "illegal, immoral, and deplorable," and "this case brought about one
+of the largest research oversight changes in the history of
+experimentation on humans" (135) because the ethics of research
+corresponds are the rules and norms that control patients' physical and
+mental wellness.