What event occurred at Henrietta’s funeral?
Henrietta’s wake was held in her home, with family and friends gathering to say farewell. When it came time to bury her, a serious storm blew up around the mourners. The storm was so severe that another Lacks cousin (not attending the funeral) was crushed to death when the wind destroyed his house.Click to see…
Henrietta’s wake was held in her home, with family and friends gathering to say farewell. When it came time to bury her, a serious storm blew up around the mourners. The storm was so severe that another Lacks cousin (not attending the funeral) was crushed to death when the wind destroyed his house.Click to see full answer. Similarly one may ask, what was Henrietta’s last request?Henrietta’s final request is that her husband Day Lacks take care of her children. This tells that she really did care about her children, and she was selfless. Gladys called Henrietta’s husband Day the night before Henrietta died.Additionally, who took Henrietta’s cells? Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. Also question is, what is the purpose of the Nuremberg Code what events led to it being developed? The Nuremburg Code forced doctors to get the consent of their patient to do experiment or research in them. The discovery of doctors experimenting on patients without their consent lead to the code being developed.What was the purpose of Southam’s experiment?? Southam started his experiments because he wanted to understand cancer, whether it started as “a virus or an immune system deficiency” (p. 128). Southam was also worried about the safety of scientists, and he thought HeLa might “infect the scientists” (p.
