1. Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Vocabulary

2. “The Woman in the Photograph” (pg 1-4)
Vocabulary

3. Oblivious (page 1)
“Her light brown skin in smooth, her eyes still young and playful, oblivious to the tumor growing inside her – a tumor that would leave her five children motherless and change the future of medicine”(pg 1)
Possible meaning/synonyms???
A. ____Unaware__________
B. ____Doesn’t know it there_____________________
C. ____Clueless________________

4. Tumor (page 1) & Cervix (page 2)

5. Immortal (page 1)
“She’s simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world’s first immortal human cells – her cells, cut from her cervix just months before she died.”
Possible meaning/synonyms???
A. __can’t die___________
B. __Living forever_________________
C. ________________________________

6. Animal Cell – page 3

7. Mitosis – (page 3)

8. Cell Culture Lab

9. Diagnosis and Treatment (pg 27-33)
Vocabulary

10. Carcinoma

11. Public ward Private Ward

12. Malignant
NOT CANCER

13. radium

15. Radium Tubes

16. “Miserable Specimen”
Vocabulary

18. Catheter

19. Spread of cancer cells

20. Radiation What is purpose of radiation? kill or damage cancer cells.
to shrink an inoperable tumor to reduce pain

21. “The HeLa Factory” (pg 93-103)
Lesson 4

22. Polio
FDR – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
– 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
contracted polio and was paralyzed waist down (39 years old)

23. Jonas Salk’s Experiment to Cure polio
Inoculate 2 million children & test their blood
Millions of Neutralization tests needed
His idea – mix the treated blood with the polio Virus
If successful - the treated blood would block the polio and remain healthy
If no successful – the polio would infect the blood cells and cause damage
Issue – tested on Monkey’s cells – which kept dying
(as no human cells could live outside the body to test)

24. Growing in suspension https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwqY99gNipE
Normal Vs Cancer cells:

25. Susceptible
Vulnerable
Open to
catchable

26. First ever cell production factory: Tuskegee Institute

27. Tuskegee Research

28. DNA & Gene (Genetics)

29. Chromosomes -

30. Diagnose Genetic Disorders:
Too few or too many chromosomes
Down’s Syndrome – extra chromosome number 21
Klinefelter syndrome – extra sex chromosome
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Turner syndrome – lacked all or part of one

31. “Illegal, Immoral, Deplorable” (pg 131-136)
Lesson 6

32. Nazi Research

33. Nuremberg Code
August 20, 1947
Ten point code of ethics – governs all human experimentation worldwide
VOLUNTARY consent essential
Replaced The Hippocratic Oath (this didn’t require consent)
Rules protecting laboratory animals (1910) but none fro humans until 1947
NOT A LAW but a list of recommendations for treatment
Not taught in medical schools – not widely known to apply to all

34. Informed Consent First appeared in court document in 1957
“full disclosure of facts necessary” to make an “intelligent” decision

35. “Night Doctors” (pg )
Lesson 7

36. autopsy a post-mortem examination surgical procedure
examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present.
It is usually performed by a specialized medical doctor called a pathologist.

37. Johns Hopkins
Born on a tobacco plantation in 1795, Johns Hopkins made a fortune as a merchant supplying settlers on the western frontier.
then turned to banking, and was an early investor in the B&O Railroad
After Hopkins’ death on Christmas Eve 1873, his $8 million fortune was left to establish a university and hospital.
A devout Quaker, Hopkins insisted that the hospital treat “the poor of this city and state, of all races.”
- His estate also established a home in Baltimore County for African-American children

38. Emancipation NOUN the freeing of someone from slavery.
Date of emancipation
Although January 1st, 1863, is the date most Americans identify as the day the Emancipation Proclamation officially took effect, the ideals of the Proclamation had been carefully contemplated by President Lincoln many months before.

39. Night doctors
Night Doctors, also known as night riders, night witches, Ku Klux doctors, and student doctors are bogeymen of African American folklore who emerged from the realities of grave-robbing, medical experimentation, and intimidation rumors spread by southern whites to prevent workers from leaving for the north.
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40. “It’s Alive” (pg )
Lesson 8

41. contamination
NOUN
the action or state of making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning:

42. “Least They Can Do”
Lesson 9
(Page )

43. “Who Told You You Could Sell My Spleen?”
Lesson 10
(pages )

44. Spleen

45. John Moore David Golde

46. Cremation