Lacks’s own life - her cells have been the subject of more In the 62 years since - twice as long as Ms. Soon the cells, called HeLa cells, were being shipped from Baltimore around the world.
In a lab, a feat no human cells had achieved before. They later discovered that the cells could thrive Not long before her death, doctors removed some of her tumor cells. Henrietta Lacks was only 31 when she died of cervical cancer in 1951 in a Baltimore hospital. It’sĪ story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.”įor those not familiar with the background, a 2013 Times article summarized it this way: As the book’s publisher describes it, it tells a “riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine of scientific discovery and faith healing and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” has been assigned or suggested as a “common read” in thousands of high schools and colleges around the country. Through the lens of Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and a related 2013 Op-Ed. Of Henrietta Lacks, and for more and more patients and their families, these are pressing ethical questions that need answers and clear policies.įor this Text to Text, we invite students to explore the science and ethics of using human cells and tissue for medical research
How private should your genetic information be? Can scientific researchers and pharmaceutical companies use your cells for the sake of scientific advancement? These are not just hypothetical questions. Teaching ideas based on New York Times content.
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