Henrietta Lacks and HeLa Cells | Sci Guys Podcast #43
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- čas přidán 8. 02. 2020
- People often complain about a lack of representation of women in STEM industries, but there is one woman that has made her mark on some of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the past 70 years. However this happened entirely unbeknownst to her. Henrietta Lacks was at the centre of one of the biggest controversies surrounding ethics in science
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We talked about this in a college course I'm taking and thought adding something I learned would be interesting: bc of how the HeLa cell line would take over other cultures, scientists would attribute the aggressiveness to her race. As in, bc the cells were from a black woman, that's why they would take over other cell lines. It was despicable on top of an already despicable thing to do!
Coming back to this pod episode and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment ep because even though I listened to them both when they came out, I now am in college and reading about Henrietta in one of my courses. I am just as horrified by the stories now as I was the first time... but thank you guys for the amazing resource!
The doctors treated her wrong while she was alive too. One of the surgeries she had made her infertile, and she only found this out after the fact. She told someone she wouldn't have had the surgery if she had known. Its unlikely she would have had more children after this anyway, as she died shortly after but that doesn't make it okay that the doctors there didn't respect her enough as a person to explain things to her.
I had a class that was basically about the ethics of science, about capitalism without ever saying the word, and we kinda started with this story and we read the book the journalist made about it. I'm glad its talked about in my college because its so important
The fact that this poor woman was, quite frankly, abused by the doctors while she was alive and that abuse continued on with her kids and her family beyond her death, and for a profit, breaks my heart. She deserved way more than she got, and I believe that the current day Lacks family deserve to have some form of compensation for that stuff she went through. RIP Henrietta, I am so sorry.
My birthday on the 23rd and I can’t go 😭😭 I’ll cry and eat cake 😂
Like guessing the minimum wage being higher than the current minimum wage in America. Love to see how outstandingly behind we are
Is it weird that I am also listening to this/ watching this doing artwork for my portfolio...? 🤔😦
I do the same thing! 😁
legitimately spat out my drink when Jamp said "not the worst kind of incest"
HE'S RIGHT BUT SHOULD YOU SAY IT???
Sci Guys
Cancer cells are really good at replicating is such an understatement lol
My grandma is a holocaust survivor. You're welcome to try to explain bitcoin to her. I'll take the money
Hiiiii
Listening to you guys butcher my state's name made this episode actively painful (most of it was great, just please learn how to say Maryland the correct way)
lots of the comments/"jokes" made in this podcast are just not sitting right with me...
there is a time & place for everything, and this was just not it.