From cf5c933881724f750984c3ecda3b2cca2313f6d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:47:21 -0400 Subject: did the HeLa quiz (.9/1 for lateness?) --- GRADES | 1 + PROGRESS | 2 +- markley/17_hela_quiz | 75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 markley/17_hela_quiz diff --git a/GRADES b/GRADES index ac20491..12f4e3c 100644 --- a/GRADES +++ b/GRADES @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Reading Response 1: 4.5/5 = 90% Quiz Three: 1/1 =100% Quiz Four: .9/1 = 90% Reading Response 2: 4.6/5 = 92% +Quiz Five: .9/1 = 90% Smith ----- diff --git a/PROGRESS b/PROGRESS index c4595eb..0abca1f 100644 --- a/PROGRESS +++ b/PROGRESS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -- English Quiz 9/28 ++ English Quiz 9/28 + HeLa + "Nature about Henrietta Lacks" in Nature - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks HBO (plus reading journal?) diff --git a/markley/17_hela_quiz b/markley/17_hela_quiz new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dac28b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/17_hela_quiz @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +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. -- cgit