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7 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/markley/02_hygeia b/markley/02_hygeia
index 9d92196..d866dba 100644
--- a/markley/02_hygeia
+++ b/markley/02_hygeia
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ middle class ability to manage their own health (because useful doctors
charged exorbitantly). Beddoes criticizes the majority of the genre, but
is itself a medical manual.
Thesis: health is a social ideal of individual habits ("rules and
-regulations") for preventive medicine.
+regulations") for preventive medicine.
Beddoes aligns with modern cultural pressure that health is a moral
issue.
diff --git a/markley/04_journal b/markley/04_journal
index 9945e89..90e5b93 100644
--- a/markley/04_journal
+++ b/markley/04_journal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Assessment:
- Sustained engagement
- Writing prompts provided
-- Relevance and quality
+- Relevance and quality
- Rhetorical strength and images
- Relation to major class topics
diff --git a/markley/06_quiz b/markley/06_quiz
index 4071a8b..44d57aa 100644
--- a/markley/06_quiz
+++ b/markley/06_quiz
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The door leads to the back of Dr Jekyll's house,
Stevenson chooses this person?
Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, is the protagonist. Stevenson uses this person
-because he is curious
+because he is curious
7. Define genre.
diff --git a/markley/09_dr_moreau b/markley/09_dr_moreau
index d5a5dc9..ef25923 100644
--- a/markley/09_dr_moreau
+++ b/markley/09_dr_moreau
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ Degeneration
- Corresponds with scientific racism, arguments that urbanization
and modernization collapsed traditional morals, crime, disease.
- Moreau: proto-eugenics
-- Prendick's return to the city hints at sort of humanity's instability
+- Prendick's return to the city hints at sort of humanity's instability
Health
- Uses social/cultural, apersonal definition.
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
+
+
diff --git a/markley/17_hela_quiz b/markley/17_hela_quiz
index dac28b3..5a2154c 100644
--- a/markley/17_hela_quiz
+++ b/markley/17_hela_quiz
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ the first to mass produce it.
The author contrasts the widespread medical benefits and opportunities
given by Henrietta's immortal cell line with the Lacks family's
-condition.
+condition.
8. What concepts or themes from other readings appear in The Immortal
Life of Henrietta Lacks?
diff --git a/markley/blog/03_moreau b/markley/blog/03_moreau
index 4d9a290..2fab77d 100644
--- a/markley/blog/03_moreau
+++ b/markley/blog/03_moreau
@@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ Sources:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
- "GMO Kill Gene" by altheadlines is licensed with CC BY-ND 2.0. To view
a copy of this license, visit
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
+ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
- Images found by search.creativecommons.org
NOT USED: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CRISPR