The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks True or False
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What did Chester Southam inject into patients in his most famous experiments? -> Saline
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2.
The Tuskegee syphilis studies ->
infected healthy black men with syphilis and
withheld penicillin to cure syphilis.
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False
3.
Skloot refers to "Mississippi Appendectomies." What are these? -> Forced tummy tucks
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4.
When George Gey learned that doctors didn't take a sample of his cancer cells to create an immortal cell line, what does he do to help science? -> Donates his body to science
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False
5.
When McKusick sends his assistant to collect blood samples from the Lacks family, what do they think he wants it for? -> To get more HeLa cells
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