It looked like a hive. Thats a good one. Gary looked at me like, What the hell is goingon here? She had foolish?She was an idiot? But I tell you one thing, I dont want to be immortalif it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in frontof you while you stay the same, and thats just sad. Then she smiled. 11, looks at a family photo and a book . How does Deborah respond after Garys prayer? Lori Andrews, who has worked pro bono on all of the most importantbiological ownership cases to date, including the current breast cancer gene suit,says that many scientists have interfered with science in precisely the way courtsalways worried tissue donors might do. Deborah stepped away from Garys embrace, shaking her head, wiping hereyes, and yelling, Phew! They both laughed. But I think she was just deaf. Deborah ran her finger across Elsies face in the Crownsville photo. When I get in my car and drive, dont have to be going nowhere, circles isfine by me. Sonny has cut off a lock of her hair to keep with Henriettas and, Would not have made it through AP Literature without the printable PDFs. Theyre using tissue scraps you partedwith voluntarily. I mean, do they all have to be color-coded? Regardless,Grody stresses that questions of consent should apply only to the collection offuture samples, not the millions already stored, including HeLa. You can HAVE IT! HeLa cells arestill contaminating other cultures and causing an estimated several milliondollars in damage each year.Howard Jones, Henriettas doctor, is an emeritus professor at Johns Hopkinsand Eastern Virginia Medical School. Im going to get a web page up aboutmy mother and hopefully be getting some donations and funding so I can comeback down here put a monument up on her grave and turn that old home-houseinto a museum that will remind people of my mother down here! What you put in there? Gladys asked, like Deborah was crazy. Im not, I swear, look, Ill say it on tape and you can sue me if I use it. Iclicked the recorder on, said into the mic that I wouldnt put that word in thebook, then turned it off. The way the content is organized. She was holding JaBrea in her lap now, grinning, tearsstreaming down her cheeks. It wouldnt harm me if I died and yougave all my money to someone else. We don't want to see this disappear," says Lurz. The third asylum in the nation established for the treatment of African-Americans with mental illness, the hospital has a grisly history that is unfortunately not uncommon for such institutions of the time. He got the faucetturned on high to clean you out, Cuz! Praise the Lord! Deborah yelled. Imlooking forward to that. The younger Deborah said she was glad that when she died, she wouldnthave to tell her mother the story of everything that happened with the cells andthe family, because Henrietta already knew. Several lawyers andethicists have suggested to me that since there is no way to anonymize HeLacells at this point, research on them should be covered by the Common Rule.And since some of the DNA present in Henriettas cells is also present in herchildren, its possible to argue that by doing research on HeLa, scientists are alsodoing research on the Lacks children. But many legal experts Ive talked with doubtsuch a case would succeed. The university refused, andthe samples were tied up in litigation for years. Now Imgonna have Sister Rebecca Skloot come and talk about what she doing with mywife and them cells. Id never sat in a congregation before, let alone spoken in front of one. This means pharmaceutical companies, scientists, anduniversities control what research can be done on those genes, and how muchresulting therapies and diagnostic tests will cost. The same is likely true of at least one otherstudy, called The Use of Deep Temporal Leads in the Study of PsychomotorEpilepsy, which involved inserting metal probes into patients brains. Experts on both sides of the debate worry that compensating patients wouldlead to profit-seekers inhibiting science by insisting on unrealistic financialagreements or demanding money for tissues used in noncommercial or nonprofitresearch. Stroke. And developers of the products that rely on human biological materialswould be out billions of dollars. I kept asking,Are you sure you want to do this? and Hows your blood pressure? andDoes your doctor know youre doing this? She kept telling me she was fine,that even her doctor said so. LET HER CARRY THEM. I sat frozen, staring at Gary, thinking, Wait a minute, that wasnt supposed tohappen! There areheavenly bodies and earthly bodies, the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies isdifferent from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies. When Christoph projected Henriettas cells on the monitor in his lab a fewdays earlier, Deborah said, Theyre beautiful. She was right. Baruch Blumberg, the Nobel Prize-winning researcher who used Ted Slavins antibodies for hepatitis B research,told me, Whether you think the commercialization of medical research is goodor bad depends on how into capitalism you are. On the whole, Blumberg said,commercialization is good; how else would we get the drugs and diagnostic testswe need? Deborah gripped her cane andstared him in the eye with a look that just begged him to mess with her. Ijust hope its nice and calm. With levels like hers, he said, she could still have oneany minute. When shes not helping save places, youll find her reading, wandering around art museums, or hiking along the Potomac River with her dog. Since the Common Rule says that researchsubjects must be allowed to withdraw from research at any time, these expertshave told me that, in theory, the Lacks family might be able to withdraw HeLacells from all research worldwide. She spends the time while Skloot is reading the medical records staring at and commenting on the photo and worrying over whether or not she lost the autopsy report. Bynoon, about a third of it was gone. Scientists use these samples to develop everything from flu vaccines to penis-enlargement products. Is there an option that helps the site move forward with a new use for its property, while also allowing for preservation, particularly of the memory of those who lived and died there? Gary stared into my eyes as he hugged Deborahs sobbing body andwhispered to her, Youre not alone. Looking at me, Gary said, She cant handle the burden of these cells nomore, Lord! He asks Deborah to tell him about, Along with the picture, the group also finds, was rampant, and scientists often conducted experiments on inmates without consent. Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 October 4, 1951) was an American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. Shepaced back and forth across the linoleum floor, picking the red polish off hernails and talking an incoherent stream about a murder shed heard about on thenews and the traffic in Atlanta. Welcome, into this place. More on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born Joe Lacks), Elsie Lacks (born Lucille Elsie Pleasant). Everything will be all right. Only time will tell. She quit after two years because her bodycouldnt take walking up and down stairs all day. After witnessing the amount of physical and emotional anguish that Deborah is in, Gary begins to, preach and lay hands on Deborah. Whos paying you? she yelled, her hand still holding meagainst the wall. ConnorSullivan29. In 2006 he wrote to the judge who sentenced him, saying he wanted topay back the money he stole and needed to know who to send it to.Dr. Suffering a violent involuting contvaction. I keep thinkin, maybe if Iunderstood some science, then the story about my mother and sister wouldntscare me so much, she said. But the second picturethe Crownsville pictureis the one that carries some heavy weight: Her once-beautiful eyes bulge from her head, slightly bruised and almost swollen shuther face misshapen and barely recognizable, her nostrils inflamed and ringed with mucusHer head is twisted unnaturally to the left, chin raised and held in place by a large pair of white hands. You wouldnt believe it, she said. But inpractice, most tissue research isnt covered because: (i) its not federally funded,or (2) the researcher never learns the identity of the donors or has firsthandcontact with them, in which case its not considered research on humans. The cemetery, now protected as part of the Anne Arundel County Bacon Ridge Natural Area, is closed off to the public with the exception of the Scenic Rivers Land Trust's annual "Walk for the Woods.". Elsie was diagnosed with epilepsy when she was 10 years old and was sent to the Hospital for the Negro Insane. Gould.) Not only that, but she wont see anybody she loves ever again. Manyof the scientists working for him use HeLa cells on a routine basis. The loss of her mother probably sealed a horrific fate for Elsie, since the family then left her at the mercy of Crownsville doctors. Sonny has sworn to uphold Deborahs desireto gain recognition for their mother. . If somebody says being buried without all their pieces willcondemn them to wandering forever because they cant get salvation, thatslegitimate, and people should respect it, Korn says. But guidelines and ethicalcodes arent laws, and many tissue-rights supporters say internal review doesntwork. The doctor told her she needed to avoid stress completely, so we decided sheshould stop coming on research trips with me. A few minutes later she handed me a page she said was herfavorite because it had her mothers signature on itthe only piece ofHenriettas handwriting on record. It started about twenty years earlier, when he wasthirtyone minute he was busy with booze and women, the next hed hadseveral heart attacks and bypasses, and he woke up preaching. Id called several times since toplan the visit, but she hadnt returned my calls. We all just stood there, staring at those big white handswrapped around Elsies neck. Deborah grabbed the blue ribbon keychain that always hung around her neck.It said WWJD. Henrietta and Day raised her for as long as they could, but eventually, caring for Elsie became too Elsie is the second child of Henrietta Lacks. I knew there was only one reason Sonny would need to call me. Itwas one of nearly a dozen tapes the BBC had recorded that didnt make it intothe documentary. Her cells have been a phenomenon throughout the world for a long time now. In fact, just as one mouse or one fruit fly isntterribly useful for research, most individual cell lines and tissue samples arentworth anything on their own. LAWRENCE LACKS,ROBBERY W/DEADLY . It says even if our father and our mother fall sick,the Lord take care of you. A few years ago the National Cancer Institute startedgathering what it expects will be millions of tissue samples for mapping cancergenes; the Genographic Project began doing the same to map human migrationpatterns, as did the NIH to track disease genes. Often indefinitely. If youre not lying, why did you smile? She started frantically stuffing papers into her canvas bags as I tried to explainmyself and talk her down. I just need some Benadryl.She bought a bottle that she kept in her purse and swigged from all day. Hed been walking toward Cooties car, carrying his best suit to putin the trunk so it wouldnt get wrinkled on the way to Cooties mothers funeral.A few months later, Deborah called to say that Cliffs brother Fred had died fromthroat cancer. In 2006 an NIH researcher gave thousands of tissue samples tothe pharmaceutical company Pfizer in exchange for about half a million dollars.He was charged with violating a federal conflict of interest law, not because hefailed to disclose his financial interest or the value of those tissues to the donors,but because federal researchers arent allowed to take money frompharmaceutical companies. She wanted us to watch them togetherso we could see the similarities between the twoSpirit fought for his freedomjust as Kunta Kinte did in Roots, she said. Discover historic places across the nation and close to home. All this stuff Im learning,she said, it make me realize that I did have a mother, and all the tragedy shewent through. A few hours laterSonny dropped by to check on her, as he did nearly every day, and found her inher bed, arms crossed on her chest, smiling. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. At several points during the day, Deborah said I should take her mothersmedical records into my hotel room when we stopped for the night. Elsie Lacks' medical records show that she suffered abuse, experimentation, and mistreatment. Lets get these things on thetable and come up with legal guidelines we can all live with, he says. Shereached into her bag and pulled out three pieces of paper: her birth certificate,Elsies birth certificate, and the legal document giving her power of attorneyover Elsie, something shed spent months getting, just in case anyone tried tostop her from doing precisely what we were doing. Elsie Lacks cause of death (a) respiratoryfailure (b) epilepsy (c) cerebral palsy. Dale wouldnt want that. An employee named Paul Lurz had managed to salvage some of the records from that time, and he actually has Elsie's autopsy report. I understand why, he whispered.Plus she just saw her mothers cells for the first time, I told him. And a great big picture of her, and maybe one ofthem wax statues. 2023 National Trust for Historic Preservation. Its my sister!Gary stopped smiling and reached for the picture. She was diagnosed with idiocy and committed to the Hospital for Negro Insane. The answer is nonot in 1951, and not in 2009, when this book wentto press. Istood with my hand over my mouth, staring in disbelief at the empty field until Irealized there were splinters of brick and small white plaster tiles pressed intothe dirt and grass. At one point shed decided she needed to get a safe deposit box for hermothers Bible and hair; later she asked if she needed to copyright Henriettassignature so no one would steal it. Learn more about Lacks in this article. Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. Becausegoing to court is the only other option. And court is where these cases often endup, particularly when they involve money.When it comes to money, the question isnt whether human tissues and tissueresearch will be commercialized. They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!, This is absolutely THE best teacher resource I have ever purchased. So I dialed Sonnys number to say something Id said to him manytimes over the years: Will you tell your sister to stop messing around and returnmy calls? It was warm out, sweatshirt weather, but Gladys hadher double-wide black wood-stove burning so hot, she sat beside it wiping sweatfrom her forehead with tissue. There are also two pictures of Elsie that figure prominently in the book. More on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Zakariyya Bari Abdul Rahman (born Joe Lacks), Elsie Lacks (born Lucille Elsie Pleasant). She doesnt look like she has palsy in this picture. Just as Lurz read the phrase vomiting coffee-ground material out loud, ashort, round, balding man in a dark business suit stormed into the room tellingme to stop taking notes and demanding to know what we were doing there. Our, "Sooo much more helpful thanSparkNotes. That fluid protects the brain fromdamage, but makes it very difficult to X-ray, since images taken through fluidare cloudy. She moved across the room tothe other bed, where she lay on her stomach and started reading her sistersautopsy report. Butthey wont, so Im gonna take the doorknob so at least I have something fromit. At one point, Deborah climbed from her car looking near tears. Everything else is red: her fingernails, the welts on her face, thedirt beneath her feet. Looking for a meaningful way to support the historic local eateries you love? No one ever came to visit her again, and patients without family are always the most vulnerable. Deborah glared at me. I dont believe my sister had all that. Lurz shook his head. Rebecca Skloot, would you stand for us this morning? Deborah whispered, Uh-oh, as the entire congregation followed his pointingfinger to look at me. Her behavior continues to get more erratic as they drive to Clover. Itll be the only picture inthe world with the three of us almost together. Finally we ended up at Henriettas sister Gladyss house, a small yellow cabinwith rocking chairs on its porch. The Moorecourts concern was, if you give a person property rights in their tissues, it wouldslow down research because people might withhold access for money. I am not going up there, I whispered back. TheWashington Post article quoted him saying, The worst thing you can do to asick person is close the door and forget about him. When I read that line out loud, Deborah whispered, We didnt forget abouther. My mother died nobody told me she was here. Eventually I leaned back in my chair and rubbed my eyes. Suite 500 For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. You knowthat. Deborah stopped fussing with the keys and collapsed back into the chair. photo by: The picture of Elsie represents not only the abuse that she personally endured at the hands of doctors and nurses at Crownsville, but the thousands of black men, women and children who also suffered there; powerless people who were more or less tortured so researches could learn about the brain. The impact that would have on science isinconceivable, he said. JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. No! I yelled, gasping for breath. His case resulted in a congressional investigation andlater a hearing; the possible interests of the patients, and their lack of knowledgeof the value of their samples, wasnt mentioned at any point in the process. Each morning Deborah left the assisted-livingfacility where she lived, and spent the day cooking and cleaning for the five orsix men living in her daughters home. Itwas sort of a generic word to describe someone who was slow, I said. Tell lawmakers and decision makers that our nation's historic places matter. I pulled up an armchair, opened my laptop, and started sorting. She called me laughing, saying, Girl, I got to get my rest so we can get backon the road and do more research before the trail get cold! Eventually, Deborah grew quiet. Deborah grabbed her longblack raincoat, opened it wide, and raised it above her like an umbrella, noddingfor me to come under with her. Deborah squinted at me, suddenly suspicious. Lawrence Lacks, 82, the eldest son of the woman whose HeLa cells have been used in their billions since they were first taken from her in 1951, says HBO and Oprah tried to exploit her memory. So far, two courts have ruledagainst the patients, relying on the same logic used in the Moore case (thatgiving patients those rights would inhibit research, etc). It hurts but I wanna know more, just like I wanna know about mysister. There she is! Deborah gasped, her face suddenly ashen. There wasnt much funding for treating blacks in the forties and fifties, hesaid. You wanted me to give it to you and I justdidnt want to, but you can have it now, Lord. Thats boomed our economy and created incentives to doresearch. Everybody in the world got her cells, only thing wegot of our mother is just them records and her Bible. As medical records show, Mrs. 2. Just look at Henrietta. You believe Henrietta is in those cells? He smiled and looked down his nose at me like, silly child. What happened to Elsie lacks? Make some time for yourself, Garysaid. She begins to get manic on Skloot, pretending to be very positive and bright about their discoveries. I would have got her out.As we left Crownsville, Deborah thanked Lurz for the information, saying, Ivebeen waiting for this a long, long time, Doc. When he asked if she was okay,her eyes welled with tears and she said, Like Im always telling my brothers, ifyou gonna go into history, you cant do it with a hate attitude. It is estimated that 1,800 patients were buried on the grounds, approximately 1,400 in unnamed but numbered graves. Student loans? Then, for the first time since we met, I lost my patience with Deborah. Refine any search. Lucille Elsie Pleasant, daughter of Henrietta Lacks, the source of the HeLa cell line, lived the final years of her short life in the hospital, where she died at just 15 years old. Letting people decide whats going to happen with theirtissue seems like the right thing to do. Shes in all the computers! I was relieved when the receptionist said the archives didnt have Elsiesmedical records. Sonny had a quintuple bypass in 2003, when he was fifty-six years oldthelast thing he remembered before falling unconscious under the anesthesia was adoctor standing over him saying his mothers cells were one of the mostimportant things that had ever happened to medicine. They injected mymothers cells with all kinds of, uh, poisons and stuff to test if theyd killpeople. Dale, Gary said, do something for yourself. Yeah, Im tryin, she said. This is three days before you were bornyourmoms pregnant with you here. What? She died there in 1955 at age 15. I knelt down and began collecting them, filling my pocketswith what remained of the town of Henriettas youth. Janice Hayes-Williams at a "Walk for the Woods" event. She lay on her side and curled herself aroundthe Crownsville picture of Elsie for so long, I thought shed fallen asleep. This really surprises me, Lurz said. They sit in lab freezers, onshelves, or in industrial vats of liquid nitrogen. Holy cuss! she yelled, is it rainingout there? Much needed rain, Gary whispered, rocking back and forth. Elsie wasn't like Henrietta's other children, because she was born with epilepsy, a mental condition that causes her brain not to process and function normally. (273). Because pneumoencephalography couldcause permanent brain damage and paralysis, it was abandoned in the 1970s. I love them boys, but Im notgonna let nobody upset me right now. The next morning was September 11, 2001. I askedagain and again if she was okay and said maybe we should stop somewhere soshe could see a doctor. But just beyond the fairgrounds lies a relic of a darker part of Maryland's history: the abandoned campus of Crownsville State Hospital. Henrietta had a daughter named Lucille Elsie Lacks, but the family called her Elsie. Id like to have this for my wall. She handed it back to meand asked me to read it out loud. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. According to Judith Greenburg, director of the Division of Genetics andDevelopmental Biology at the National Institute of General Medical Science, theNIH now has very stringent guidelines requiring consent for any tissuescollected for their banks. The National Trusts federal tax identification number is 53-0210807. Deborah and I stared at the choir behind him, our faces blank, pretendingnot to see. When the films ended, Deborah jumped out of bed and put in yet anothervideo. Complete your free account to access notes and highlights. Theyre here to look at thepatients medical records.The man paused, looking at Deborah, then at me: a short black woman in herfifties, and a taller white woman in her twenties. What happened to Elsie in Henrietta Lacks daughter? Poor Elsie, already dealing with her illness, her mothers illness, and being locked in that hospital. Then he pointed around the room at Davon andJaBreas other cousins, saying, So will that child and that child and thatchild. Elsie Lacks ' family sent her to Crownsville (formerly known as the Hospital for the Negro Insane) after it became impossible to keep her safe and healthy at home. Lurz told Deborah that because Elsie had epilepsy, the doctors probably did a pneumoencephalogram on her. 3. Shes suffered a lot inlife, and now shes happy. After finding Deborah in her bed, Sonny cut a lock of her hair and tucked itinside their mothers Bible with the locks of hair from Henrietta and Elsie.Shes with them now, he told me. THANK YOU FOR TONIGHT! Theirvoices grew louder together, until Gary stopped, tears and sweat pouring fromhis face onto Deborah as she screamed, Thank you Jesus! and let loose with achorus of hallelujahs and praise Gods. [1] First black superintendent [ edit] - NCERT POINT. My motherand I always loved it down there more than anywhere else in the world. She stroked Davons hair. Then he startedshaking. Dont doctors have to tell you when they use your cells inresearch? Gary hugged Deborah good-bye, then hugged me. (See p. 282) She spends the time while Skloot is reading the medical records staring at and commenting on the photo and worrying over whether or not she lost the autopsy report. 20005. She could have been my grandmother, never given a chance by society norms. So we kept going. Try our expert-verified textbook solutions with step-by-step explanations. And whatyou plant is a bare seed not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up. She sat in the front pew in a reddress suit, hands folded in her lap, listening to her husband preach aboutSeptember 11. Lets get busy, she said. Thats what I woke up knowin. 5. They have nothing to lose. That really made me feelokay about dying whenever my time come, shed told me. She stayed home the next day,ate the leftover crab cakes Sonny sent home with her, and talked to Davon on thephonehe was learning to drive and wanted to come over in the morning topractice. They put cells in culture dishes and expose them toradiation, drugs, cosmetics, viruses, household chemicals, and biologicalweapons, and then study their responses. Beautiful andotherworldlyglowing green and moving like water, calm and ethereal, lookingprecisely like heavenly bodies might look. In other words, he was informed, and hegave consent. It was overcrowded and understaffed in Elsie's time. Among other things,scientists involved in the case claim that the practice of gene patenting hasinhibited their research, and they aim to stop it. Today the decision to disclose thisinformation is up to the institution, and many choose not to tell patients. Sometimes learning can be justas painful as not knowing. Im ready, Deborah said, nodding. This is about a week after she first went tothe hospital with her cervical cancer, I said. I smiled. Shes alittle puffy from cryin because she misses my mother, she said at one point.Another time she told a woman, My sisters upset because shes been lookingfor me but cant find me. Occasionally shed pull over to the side of the road and motion for me to pullup beside her so she could tell me various ideas shed come up with as shedrove. During our last call, Id told her that thebook was done, and shed said she wanted me to come to Baltimore and read itto her, so I could talk her through the hard parts. You know I work for myself. Who sent you? I just keep thinkin about what she mustve gone throughin those years before she died. I wanted to take the picture from her so shed stop torturing herself with it, butshe wouldnt have let me if Id tried. Knockyourself out.34 The Medical Records A few minutes later, Deborah pounded on my door. Discover the easy ways you can incorporate preservation into your everyday lifeand support a terrific cause as you go. Elsie wasnt like Henriettas other children, because she was born with epilepsy, a mental condition that causes her brain not to process and function normally. It was my birthday, and wed planned to meet in Clover that day. Deborah stands up to a supervisor that doesn't want her to have a copy of Elsie's autopsy an examination and dissection of a dead body typically to determine the cause of death, autopsy = examination of the dead body typically to determine the cause of death, She talked about a man she didn't name, saying, "I didn't think it was fit for him to steal my mother medical record and, As Henrietta's body cooled in the "colored" freezer, Gey asked her doctors if they'd do an, Though no law or code of ethics required doctors to ask permission before taking tissue from a living patient, the law made it very clear that performing an, The way Day remembers it, someone from Hopkins called to tell him Henrietta had died, and to ask permission for an, Day's cousin said it wouldn't hurt, so eventually Day agreed and signed an, Now there she was with a corpse, a stack of petridishes, and the pathologist, Dr. Wilbur, who stood hunched over the, Day wanted Henrietta to be presentable for the funeral, so he'd only given permission for a partial, Or maybe they did something to her during that, When Henrietta died, Day had agreed to let her doctors do an, pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the, Then she asked Mary to tell the story about seeing her mother's red toenails during the, Cofield then filed a lawsuit against Deborah, Lawrence, Courtney Speed, the Henrietta Lacks Health History Museum Foundation, and a long list of Hopkins officials: the president, the medical records administrator, an archivist, Richard Kidwell, and Grover Hutchins, the director of, He demanded access to the medical records and, The photo was attached to the top corner of Elsie's, She handed them to the man, who grabbed the, Each time she panicked, she'd pat the bed and say, "Where's my sister, She moved across the room to the other bed, where she lay on her stomach and started reading her sister's, She sat down next to me and pointed to a different word in her sister's, Population figures are available at census. 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