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Essay On Henrietta Lacks

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Henrietta was a victim of the unethical methods that took place at John Hopkins hospital. She was violated when they decided to take her cells without her permission, and she was never told that they had taken her cells before she passed away. After, Henrietta passed away her family suffered greatly. Her husband, Day, did not take care of the children well. Henrietta was the only one in the family who visited Elsie, who was at Crownsville State Hospital, which was an hour and a half south of Baltimore (Skloot 45). This hospital did terrible things to their patients. After Henrietta passed away, Elsie was alone, and she passed away not long after Henrietta passed away. Henrietta’s youngest children, who were one through four years old when Henrietta died, named Sonny, Joe and Deborah suffered years of abuse from a …show more content…

Ethel would only feed them a biscuit for breakfast, and that one biscuit had to last them all day long (Skloot 111). To prevent them from eating anything else, she would put latches and bolts on the cupboard and refrigerator (Skloot 111). She treated all the youngest children terribly, but she treated Joe the worse. For example, Ethel would beat Joe for no reason, and she would beat him with anything she could get her hands on such as shoes, chairs, and sticks (Skloot 112). She did many horrible things to Joe throughout his life. She tortured Joe so much that she turned Joe into a very angry person. Joe turned into mean child, and this continued throughout his life. Day would allow Deborah to be sexually abused during her childhood. The guy who did this was named Galen, and he was Ethel’s husband. Galen did horrible things to Deborah, and he got violent with Deborah due to him being jealous of her dating people. One-time Deborah was walking home with a boy, and Galen spotted them together. Skloot said,” Galen jumped out of the car, cussing and screaming and telling her she was a

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