Explain how the development of the Pap smear improved the survival rate of women diagnosed with cervical cancer.

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks to structure the three thesis points. Your reading this week includes Chapters 17-20, and a summary of one of those chapters is due Friday, also. Be sure to practice quoting in MLA format by including direct quotes with attribution and a citation. See Purdue Wise Owl (link in Websites tab on left of Blackboard screen), for additional help if you need it. We are going to continue sentence combining using conjunctions and proper punctuation, and learn about denotation, conotation, and inferences. See RWACI for further definitions of each. Instructions: MLA I need a summary Due on January 25, 2016 I need a thesis due January 27, 2016

 

 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks READING GUIDE                                    Chapters 1-5

 

Prologue: The Woman in the Photograph

 

  1. The author uses several similes to describe cells. What simile does she use to describe

 

the way a cell looks? What simile does she use to explain the functions of the different

 

parts of a cell? What do these similes suggest about biology?

 

  1. What is mitosis? What beneficial biological processes involve mitosis?

 

  1. What simile does Donald Defler use to describe mitosis?

 

  1. What happens when there is a mistake during the process of mitosis?

 

  1. According to Defler, how important was the discovery of HeLa cells?

 

  1. As a high school student, Skloot began researching HeLa cells to find out more about

 

Henrietta Lacks. Examine pages 5 and 6 and write down each step that Skloot took to

 

begin her research.

 

 

 

Chapter One: The Exam

 

  1. How long did Henrietta wait between first telling her girlfriends that “something didn’t

 

feel right” and going to the doctor?

 

  1. Why does Sadie think Henrietta hesitated before seeing a doctor?

 

  1. What did Henrietta’s first doctor assume the source of the lump on Henrietta’s cervix

 

was? What stereotype or bias might this assumption be based upon?

 

  1. Why did David Lacks take Henrietta to the public wards at Johns Hopkins instead of a

 

closer hospital?

 

  1. Explain what the Jim Crow laws were.

 

  1. Who was Henrietta’s gynecologist?

 

  1. Review the notes on Henrietta’s medical history found on page 16. Based on the

 

objective details in her medical chart, what can you infer about Henrietta’s life and

 

personality?

 

  1. Based on her medical chart, how would you describe Henrietta’s feelings about

 

doctors?

 

  1. What did Howard Jones find “interesting” about Henrietta’s medical history? What does

 

this finding suggest about Henrietta’s cancer?

 

 

 

Chapter Two: Clover

 

  1. Why did Henrietta end up being raised by her grandfather, Tommy Lacks?

 

  1. What are the connotations of the term “home-house”? What does this term suggest

 

about the values of the Lacks family?

 

  1. How was Day related to Henrietta?

 

  1. Skloot uses vivid imagery and details to describe Henrietta’s childhood in Clover.

 

Locate a passage that you found particularly effective or memorable, and explain why

 

you selected it.

 

  1. Describe the relationship between Crazy Joe and Henrietta.

 

  1. How old was Henrietta when she had her first child with Day?

 

  1. What was different about Henrietta’s second child, Elsie?

 

  1. Compare the medical terms describing Elsie’s condition with the terms used by

 

Henrietta’s friends and family. What are the connotations of the two sets of terms?

 

  1. How did Pearl Harbor change life in Turner Station?

 

  1. Contrast the working conditions of black workers and white workers at the Sparrows

 

Point Steel Mill.

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter Three: Diagnosis and Treatment

 

  1. How are different types of cancer categorized?

 

  1. Summarize Dr. TeLinde’s position in the debate over the treatment of cervical cancer.

 

  1. Explain how the development of the Pap smear improved the survival rate of women

 

diagnosed with cervical cancer.

 

  1. How did doctors justify using patients in public hospital wards as medical research

 

subjects without obtaining their consent or offering them financial compensation? Do

 

you agree or disagree with their reasoning? Explain your answer.

 

  1. How did TeLinde hope to prove that his hypothesis about cervical cancer was correct?

 

  1. What was George Gey’s position at Johns Hopkins?

 

  1. Explain what an immortal cell line is.

 

  1. Explain how TeLinde and Gey’s relationship led to Gey obtaining a tissue sample from

 

Henrietta’s tumor.

 

  1. Analyze the consent statement that Henrietta signed on page 31. Based on this

 

statement, do you believe TeLinde and Guy had the right to obtain a sample from her

 

cervix to use in their research?

 

  1. Do you think Henrietta would have given explicit consent to have a tissue sample used

 

in medical research if she had been asked? Do you think she would have understood

 

what was being asked of her? Explain your answers.

 

  1. Were cells taken only from black patients? Were black patients generally treated

 

differently from white patients in the early 1950s? Explain your answers.

 

 

 

Chapter Four: The Birth of HeLa

 

  1. Summarize the main obstacles Gey and his assistants faced in their effort to grow cells.

 

  1. Where did the name “HeLa” come from?

 

  1. Based on the descriptions of Gey found on pages 38–39, offer three adjectives that best

 

describe his personality.

 

  1. Explain how Gey’s roller-tube culturing technique works.

 

  1. What happened to the HeLa cells that Mary cultured?

 

  1. Gey chose to give away samples of HeLa to his colleagues almost immediately. Do you

 

think this was a good decision? Explain your answer.

 

  1. Once HeLa started growing, was Henrietta informed that her cells were being used in

 

Gey’s research?

 

  1. What is the implication of the author’s decision to use the term “birth” to describe the

 

initial growth of HeLa cells?

 

 

 

Chapter Five: “Blackness Be Spreadin All Inside”

 

  1. After her diagnosis and treatment, how did Henrietta behave? What can you infer

 

about her personality based on this behavior?

 

  1. According to Ethel’s cousins, why did she dislike Henrietta?

 

  1. What was Elsie’s early life like?

 

  1. Why did Henrietta and David (Day) Lacks decide to place Elsie in the Hospital for the

 

Negro Insane?

 

  1. What specific details let the reader know that sending Elsie away was difficult for

 

Henrietta?

 

  1. Why do you think Henrietta initially chose not to tell people about her cancer

 

diagnosis? What does this decision suggest about Henrietta’s personality?

 

  1. What important information did Henrietta’s doctor fail to give her before starting her

 

cancer treatment? How did she react when this information was eventually shared with

 

her?

 

 

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