Heshani KVDonJohn
Class 3A
2/12/13
Professor Zach Kelly
Draft2
#1
Henrietta discovered her tumor slid a finger inside herself and rubbed it across her cervix until she found what she somehow knew she don’t find a hard lump, deep inside, as though someone had lodged a marble just to the left of the opening her womb. Her local doctor took one look inside her, saw the lump, and figured it was a sore from syphilis, but he lump tested negative for syphilis, so he told Henrietta she had better got to Johns Hopkins gynecology clinic. Hopkins was one of the top hospitals in the country. It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and insane asylum once sat in east Baltimore. The public wards at Hopkins were filled with patients, most of them black and unable to pay their medicals bills. Her husband David drove her nearly twenty miles to get there, not because they preferred it, but because it was the only major hospital for miles that treats black patients. The treat black patients, segregated them in colored wards, and had colored only fountains. Henrietta undressed, wrapped herself in a starched white hospital gown, and lay down on a wooden exam table, waiting for Howard Jones, the gynecologist on duty. Skloot says “I conducted of Henrietta lacks, as well as with lawyers, ethicist, scientists, and journalists who have written about the lacks family. The word Hela, used to refer to the cells grown from Henrietta lack’s cervix, occurs throughout the book. It is pronounced hee-lab.
The source materials she relied on to write this book filled multiples file cabinets, and the hundreds of hours of interviews she conducted with member of the lacks family, scientists, journalists, legal scholars worth of notebooks. She has not listed all of those experts in these notes, but many are thanked in the acknowledgments or cities by name in the book. These notes are organized by chapter, with two exceptions since the lacks family and George Gey appear throughout many chapters, she have consolidated my notes about them ad listed them immediately below. If a chapter is not listed in the notes, it means the source material for that chapter is described in there consolidated entries about Gey and the Lackses.
Class 3A
2/12/13
Professor Zach Kelly
Draft2
#1
Henrietta discovered her tumor slid a finger inside herself and rubbed it across her cervix until she found what she somehow knew she don’t find a hard lump, deep inside, as though someone had lodged a marble just to the left of the opening her womb. Her local doctor took one look inside her, saw the lump, and figured it was a sore from syphilis, but he lump tested negative for syphilis, so he told Henrietta she had better got to Johns Hopkins gynecology clinic. Hopkins was one of the top hospitals in the country. It was built in 1889 as a charity hospital for the sick and poor, and it covered more than a dozen acres where a cemetery and insane asylum once sat in east Baltimore. The public wards at Hopkins were filled with patients, most of them black and unable to pay their medicals bills. Her husband David drove her nearly twenty miles to get there, not because they preferred it, but because it was the only major hospital for miles that treats black patients. The treat black patients, segregated them in colored wards, and had colored only fountains. Henrietta undressed, wrapped herself in a starched white hospital gown, and lay down on a wooden exam table, waiting for Howard Jones, the gynecologist on duty. Skloot says “I conducted of Henrietta lacks, as well as with lawyers, ethicist, scientists, and journalists who have written about the lacks family. The word Hela, used to refer to the cells grown from Henrietta lack’s cervix, occurs throughout the book. It is pronounced hee-lab.
The source materials she relied on to write this book filled multiples file cabinets, and the hundreds of hours of interviews she conducted with member of the lacks family, scientists, journalists, legal scholars worth of notebooks. She has not listed all of those experts in these notes, but many are thanked in the acknowledgments or cities by name in the book. These notes are organized by chapter, with two exceptions since the lacks family and George Gey appear throughout many chapters, she have consolidated my notes about them ad listed them immediately below. If a chapter is not listed in the notes, it means the source material for that chapter is described in there consolidated entries about Gey and the Lackses.