HELA padlet by Rofeny Ly

Chapter #1: Henrietta's Treatment

2025-04-18 17:54:02 UTC

Hopkins' patients were people of color, and those who came to Hopkins had no other options.
She faced numerous obstacles in seeking treatment-held back by her unfaithful husband and discriminated against at hospitals outside of Hopkins because she was a woman of color. The experience made her reluctant to return to the hospital. At the time, most people had little understanding of illnesses like tumors or syphilis.

Chapter #2: Henrietta's Life

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Henrietta and her cousin Day, had a child together shortly after her 14th birthday.
Henrietta lived with her 8 other siblings in a small and poor house, her mother even died giving birth to her 10th child.
Growing up, Henrietta grew tobacco for a living.

Chapter #3: Invasive and Non-invasive Cancers

2025-04-22 17:50:23 UTC

The non-invasive means it outside the tissue while the invasive is in the tissue and that is even more dangerous. The important thing is they were both spread but the doctor doesn't know it.

Dr. Hey got Henrietta's cells by taking some cells from the cancer without the permission and the agreement from her.

The Hospital for the Negro Insane: Elsie

722802_2 — 2025-04-25 17:54:43 UTC

1. The hospital was for black people, with very poor material values.

2. Elsie may have been misdiagnosed and treated very unethically.

3. The hospital used very unscientific methods.

4. The family was not informed about Elsie's condition.

5. It was later discovered that Elsie had been experimented on.

Henrietta and Elsie

722802_2 — 2025-04-25 18:03:58 UTC

Henrietta:

was a strong and religious mother, suffered from cervical cancer, died in pain, not knowing how much she had contributed to medicine.

Elsie:

Henrietta's daughter, mentally disabled, possibly used for experiments, after losing her brain was kept, the family knew nothing about her condition.

Chapter 11: Henrietta Death

722802_2 — 2025-05-01 17:36:08 UTC

Henrietta could have had a good death as well as not because she was experimented on without permission, she was in a lot of pain from her cancer so it could be argued that it wasn't entirely good, on the contrary her death saved a lot of people so it could also be good.

Chapter 15: Henrietta's Children

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Her children were adopted by someone who was jealous of their mother. Of course, these children were not given enough food and sleep at that time.

Chapter 17: Southam's Experience

722802_2 — 2025-05-01 17:40:36 UTC

It was an experiment to inject Hela cells into people without their consent. It was unethical to treat the patients, and not even let them know that they were being experimented on.

Chapter 7: Dr. Carell

722802_2 — 2025-05-05 06:52:28 UTC

He was a proponent of eugenics. He made people doubt whether it was possible to keep cells forever, so later many people did not believe in Hela cells.

The Birth of Hela

722802_2 — 2025-05-05 07:08:34 UTC

Margaret is Dr. Gey's wife who helps with the techniques needed for the cell to survive. Mary is the one who grows the cell from Henrietta, and monitors its growth.

Johns Hopkins Hospital

722802_2 — 2025-05-05 07:22:31 UTC

He talked about how hospitals should help the poor, but were used for unethical research. The lead poisoning experiment was an experiment on poor black children who were placed in homes with lead paint without explicit consent from their guardians.