Discussion Questions:
Chapter 13:Discussion Questions:
1.The author notes that Tuskegee Institute, site of the first HeLa production
factory, was also home to the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Study. How are these two
projects similar? How are they different?
2.Why is standardization of procedures considered so critical to scientific
research?How can that standardization also limit the growth of research?
3.Did Microbiological Associates have the right to begin growing and selling HeLa
cells, even though they had played no role in developing them?
Chapter 14:
1)Why do the journalists find it so necessary to find out Henriettas name and contact her family for stories about Henrietta and her life?
2)Why did George Gey reject to acknowledge Henrietta Lacks for journalists?
3)Should Gey and his colleges have explain and tell the Lacks family about the history of HeLa? Why or why not?
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