Watch the movie - "Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" and give short answers to each question below. 1. What are HeLa cells? Why are they so important to medical science?

2. Why were the Lackses so upset when they first heard about HeLa cells?

3. How has the idea of "informed consent" changed since Henrietta's day?

4. How does learning more about their mother and sister help Henrietta's children? In what ways does it hurt them?

5. What kinds of innovations have come about because of HeLa cells? In terms of ethics? Technologies?

6. What is the relationship between race and science in this work?

7. What is eugenics? How does it play into the story of cell culture?

8. Why does Skloot bring up the Tuskegee Institute syphilis studies? What issues were raised from those experiments?

9. How does Elsie's experience at Crownsville explicate some of Skloot's primary themes in this work?

10. Does the Lacks family have a satisfactory outcome after their decades of struggling with the HeLa industry? What does "satisfactory" look like for them?

11. Do poor people today have better access to health care than in 1951?

12. Would you let a doctor use your skin cancer cells for skin cancer research? How about for cosmetic surgery research?

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