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diff --git a/markley/16_hela b/markley/16_hela index ae60fcd..c44423e 100644 --- a/markley/16_hela +++ b/markley/16_hela @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ Clover who don't want to "intermix" (confederate flag people). They won't admit they are related by blood to the black Lackses. Lillian, Henrietta's sister, moved out to NY and "converted to Puerto Rican" because she didn't want to be black anymore. -There were lynchings and the Klan into the 1980s, but people claimed -that race relations weren't bad. +There were lynchings and the Klan into the 1980s, but people claim +that race relations never were bad. Chapter 17 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ He, without consent, tested Henrietta's cells on people w/ and then w/o cancer, believing that there was significant possibility of risk of them getting cancer, under the guise of testing "immune systems." He also tested prison populations. -This was 16 years after (1966) the Nuremberg trials and eventually outed +This was 16 years after the Nuremberg trials (1966) and eventually outed by Jewish doctors he asked to help him continue his "research." Informed consent was poorly established in the courts and in physician communities, but the Nuremberg Code had created a single ethical @@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ Jon Hopkins, however, was created as a charity for poor and colored people, which is why it was constructed in Baltimore. However, there were still many violations of black people's rights, such as willful lead poisoning, unconsented gene sampling, and Henrietta. +(Return to interview) Lawrence: "If our mother so important to science, why can't we get health insurance?" Sonny believes Hopkins didn't snatch black people but they did willfully @@ -170,3 +171,7 @@ Walter Nelson-Rees, for the National Cancer Institute, is publishing a J Douglas, a biologist at Brunei University, wants to find out He..La.'s true identity. +# Henrietta Lacks: science must right a historical wrong +https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02494-z + + |