Henrietta Lacks - Aliya Ali by Aliya Ali

Prologue

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Ch.1 Summary

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Not here -Holiday-

Ch.2 Summary

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1. Henrietta's mom died giving birth to her tenth child

2. Day is Henrietta's first cousin and husband

3. Crazy Joe is Henrietta's fist cousin that's crazy in love with her

4. Elsie is Henrietta's second child that hit her head on the floor (Has some medical issues)

5. Tobacco farming was how they supported their family (get money)

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Rebecca wrote this book because she wants people to know Henrietta Lack's story. She noticed that a lot of people don't know anything about Henrietta. This story is going to be interesting because of the issues that come up in the healthcare field. This book will help show us the unfairness that goes on in the medical field.

Ch.3 Te-linde and Dr. Gey

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1. TeLinde shaved pieces of tissue from Henrietta's cervix and sent them to Dr. Gey

2. Situ leads to invasive cancer, many doctors would tell women that had situ that they're okay however they would end up dying.

Ch.4 The Birth of HeLa

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1. Mary was good at delicate cutting, scraping, tweezing, and pipetting

2. Margaret covered each cloth with culture medium, plugged the tubes with rubber stoppers and labeled it HeLa. Margaret also created the food and kept the place sterilized.

Ch.5 Henrietta and her treatment

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1. Henrietta was full of fun, light and she always liked to have her nails done.

2. Henrietta is now dealing with gonorrhea and radiation inside of her

3. Galen liked Henrietta and for the reason Ethel didn't like her

Ch.7 Dr. Carnell

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1. Dr. Carnell worked with the nazi's, he's a racist and liar. He lied about an immortal chicken heart. The whole time he kept on putting more cells in the chicken heart to make it look immortal.

Ch.8 Henrietta's final days

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1. The way Henrietta died was horrible and scary. Her family didn't know she was dying and she was in a lot of pain. The doctors also didn't seem to care about Henrietta because they sent her back home to bed.