It actually cannot be understated just how pivotal her cells have been to solving MANY of humanities ailments. They only scratched the surface of it in this story. The fact that it was done without permission and that neither she nor her family have ever seen a dime of the profits is an embarrassment to science and the US... but the us has many things to be embarrassed of sooooo.....
Not really. Medical ethics didn’t exist back then. The only difference between this case and other cases is that HeLa cells made a whole world of difference in biomedical science.
@@EnigmaticRonin where did they say they hate it? You can live in a country and be able to criticize it. Is free speech no longer apart of the constitution?
I'm so glad many public school districts require their students to read about Miss Henrietta Lacks! It makes sure today's kids know the true history behind the advancements and discoveries made around cancer because of Miss. Lacks
I like how they took something for free without permission, reproduced it, and have been selling it ever since without at least some kind of royalties or something.
Not surprised her DNA was used without her permission. These people need recognition and their history needs to be taught in schools. Black and African history is astounding
If it wasn’t illegal during those times to get consent how can they be upset they should be happy that she has helped a lot during research whether she knew or not
This poor woman probably would have said yes to the doctors if they had asked to take the samples to help make vaccines that properly helped to save not only her grandkids but their kids and millions of other people. It's sad that shes not honoured in her home country but is here in the UK. I hope the family win the lawsuit and the bill is past as this woman needs to be honoured
I don't get why people think she would have objected to tissue samples being used. As someone who's gone though many medical treatments and signed I have no idea how many consent forms, it all just becomes routine at some point and you don't give it much thought. Heck, for all I know some of my samples were used to develop something.
We will never know at this point. But more than likely she probably would have considering the time and the fact Black people and people in general were being tested on without their consent.
Here is the problem with this whole thing, from 1907 until the 1980s when the first actual requirements for informed consent became law, there were literally MILLIONS of tissue samples and cell samples taken from patients. As these were all things REMOVED from the human body and disposed of. Scientists began using them instead with tissues, cultures and cells of animals to understand pathologies, vaccines, etc. Only in the 1970s did discussion even begin of getting patient consent. This was not done because Henrietta Lacks was black. It was done guribg EVERY surgery regardless of race/ethnicity. Then when HeLa ( the first human cell line) was developed she was duely lauded as the donor. But her family mDe it racial and weaponized it and claim ownership of her body and demand ownership of ALL the patents that used her cell line for the same age old reason, greed. It is all about money. I totally agree with recognizing her contribution, talking about her and even the Congressional Medal. But without the expertise, excellence and education her cells would not have amounted to anything. When asked about her cell line succeeding where so many previous attempts had failed scientists basically said it was a numbers game. Millions of attempts with many differences in variables made is statistically probable a cell line would eventually emerge. Henrietta happened to have a certain enzyme that can appear in higher amounts amongst some African Americans and that could be part of why her cell line was successful but the researchers did not know for certain and any of the millions of samples could have been successful. If the government pays out to Henrietta Lacks then they would have to pay out to the descendants of all the millions of people whose samples they took.😊
HBO commissioned Kadir Nelson for an oil painting of Lacks. In 2018, the portrait was jointly acquired by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The wallpaper in the painting is made up of the "Flower of Life" alluding to the immortality of her cells. The flowers on her dress resemble images of cell structures, and the two missing buttons on her dress symbolize her cells taken without permission. 💮
Miss Lacks' family should have more than enough money by now from the government and pharmaceutical companies around the world to make sure that their families have generational wealth for years to come but they don't...and that is a damn shame. 💊
I think the Lacks family should be compensated. It's a problem for the pharmaceutical companies though because they don't want to have to compensate anyone for any tissue or blood specimens they take. Currently, if you visit the doctor and they remove any tissue it becomes their legal property. Whether it's skin, muscle, or bone they don't have to give you a penny if they make a profit from research they did using your cells.
Lacks family would be multimillionares if they get the credit for their relative. Even if her cells were very useful to the medical field, it's unjust that they took her cells away and made piles of profit without the family knowing. It's stealing...
Never really made sense to me how do you go get cancer treatment and not consent to it being removed? How can you take cancer out of someone's body without consent I feel like if you walk into the hospital looking for cancer treatment you already consent to having it removed. While I'm sure she didn't consent to having this done to it.
She did consent to some of the treatment but the cervical biopsy wasn't part of that consent. The doctor took it w/o asking. They also didn't tell her that the treatments they gave her would render her barren. Her family is certain she would have refused the treatment had she known the outcome because she wanted to have more children. If you haven't read her biography by Rebecca Skloot, give it a look. It's an utterly fascinating book and a quick read. 🙂
Also, the treatments were too strong and were going to kill her regardless of the cancer. The skin over her stomach turned black from the radiation. Doctors were in the early stages of understanding how to treat cancer at that time.
This would be a great movie or series rather than a story of Greek Queen changed into a black one just because she's popular and the proof of that she is black is that the mother of that professor said " I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black "
0:57 isn’t that the woman who took another passenger’s seat on a united Airlines flight and end up playing the race card, saying that she was the victim! 💀
I was smiling throughout this video until she said the family was suing. Ruins the whole thing and makes it seem like they were only doing it for the money
So you were smiling at the part where doctors literally stole cells from this lady to make profit WITHOUT her consent and didn’t tell the dead woman’s family and just made million maybe billions of dollars without any of it going to the family? idk about you but i wouldn’t want someone making a profit off of my dead relative without anyone’s consent
The family shouldn’t have to be suing they should’ve been given monetary ownership of her cell why is it OK for the pharmaceutical company to make money????
Bless her soul , she certainly won’t be forgotten and the family deserves compensation from the many millions earned by the research companies
Dos every other family member of someone whose samples were used in treatment entitled to $$$ also?
@@Seek1878Yep
@@Seek1878Yes
@@Seek1878her samples were taken illegally
Even as a Canadian, I think she deserves this award, and I hope the family wins their lawsuit. Thank you Henrietta for everything you have done for us
Enough honors and statues, pay that poor woman's family!
On god, all Hopkins fault
It actually cannot be understated just how pivotal her cells have been to solving MANY of humanities ailments. They only scratched the surface of it in this story. The fact that it was done without permission and that neither she nor her family have ever seen a dime of the profits is an embarrassment to science and the US... but the us has many things to be embarrassed of sooooo.....
If you live in the US and hate it I'll happily contribute to your fund to leave.❤
Not really. Medical ethics didn’t exist back then. The only difference between this case and other cases is that HeLa cells made a whole world of difference in biomedical science.
@@EnigmaticRonin You should leave for a better place to live as well ... unless you're one of idiotic stubborn American patriot?
you cant judge the past by todays standards. Far too many people do that.
@@EnigmaticRonin where did they say they hate it? You can live in a country and be able to criticize it. Is free speech no longer apart of the constitution?
I'm so glad many public school districts require their students to read about Miss Henrietta Lacks! It makes sure today's kids know the true history behind the advancements and discoveries made around cancer because of Miss. Lacks
Well I’ve never heard of her until now
I just read it at school two weeks ago really interesting
That painted portrait of Ms Lacks is gorgeous. Thank you to a beautiful person who should have been respected and honoured long ago.
I like how they took something for free without permission, reproduced it, and have been selling it ever since without at least some kind of royalties or something.
I was just teaching my dad about this amazing lady. 💖
Bless her soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾 🕊️
I am glad I was told about this woman as a little girl.
She deserves to be recognized as a crucial part of black history
Race hustler
She's an angel 🙏🏾❤️
I actually learned about Henrietta Lacks in my Biomedical Ethics Class just 1-2 months ago. What a coincidence. 🙂
She will live on for ever
Literally
Forever
Not surprised her DNA was used without her permission. These people need recognition and their history needs to be taught in schools. Black and African history is astounding
I was taught a lot about her in highschool and I graduated last year, she has a beautiful but heart wrenching story.
Cool story and I love history
But I'm white and CRT hurts my snowflake feelings.
@@777Skeptic 🤦🏻♀️
No country tribe nationality religion etc named ''black''.
Omg without her consent 😮how about getting compensation for the family
That family also deserve BILLIONS of dollars.
Oh, without a doubt.
Exactly!!!! This is so shameful and wrong!!! She and her family deserve more❤❤❤
Trillions!
I learned something new today. Henrietta Lacks.
There is a wonderful movie too
@@carolynne4872 I just googled it. Is it the one with Oprah playing her?.
Yes, yes 🥰
We were speaking about her in class last week ❤
If it wasn’t illegal during those times to get consent how can they be upset they should be happy that she has helped a lot during research whether she knew or not
This poor woman probably would have said yes to the doctors if they had asked to take the samples to help make vaccines that properly helped to save not only her grandkids but their kids and millions of other people. It's sad that shes not honoured in her home country but is here in the UK. I hope the family win the lawsuit and the bill is past as this woman needs to be honoured
I don't get why people think she would have objected to tissue samples being used. As someone who's gone though many medical treatments and signed I have no idea how many consent forms, it all just becomes routine at some point and you don't give it much thought. Heck, for all I know some of my samples were used to develop something.
We will never know at this point. But more than likely she probably would have considering the time and the fact Black people and people in general were being tested on without their consent.
Here is the problem with this whole thing, from 1907 until the 1980s when the first actual requirements for informed consent became law, there were literally MILLIONS of tissue samples and cell samples taken from patients. As these were all things REMOVED from the human body and disposed of. Scientists began using them instead with tissues, cultures and cells of animals to understand pathologies, vaccines, etc. Only in the 1970s did discussion even begin of getting patient consent. This was not done because Henrietta Lacks was black. It was done guribg EVERY surgery regardless of race/ethnicity. Then when HeLa ( the first human cell line) was developed she was duely lauded as the donor. But her family mDe it racial and weaponized it and claim ownership of her body and demand ownership of ALL the patents that used her cell line for the same age old reason, greed. It is all about money. I totally agree with recognizing her contribution, talking about her and even the Congressional Medal. But without the expertise, excellence and education her cells would not have amounted to anything. When asked about her cell line succeeding where so many previous attempts had failed scientists basically said it was a numbers game. Millions of attempts with many differences in variables made is statistically probable a cell line would eventually emerge. Henrietta happened to have a certain enzyme that can appear in higher amounts amongst some African Americans and that could be part of why her cell line was successful but the researchers did not know for certain and any of the millions of samples could have been successful. If the government pays out to Henrietta Lacks then they would have to pay out to the descendants of all the millions of people whose samples they took.😊
@@queenme7401 They weren't testing on her though.
In case she found out later she would want money. Although the secret still got out.
It's about CONSENT, something that is *supposed* to be important in medicine.
Pay her family!!
HBO commissioned Kadir Nelson for an oil painting of Lacks. In 2018, the portrait was jointly acquired by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. The wallpaper in the painting is made up of the "Flower of Life" alluding to the immortality of her cells. The flowers on her dress resemble images of cell structures, and the two missing buttons on her dress symbolize her cells taken without permission. 💮
highly recommend the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I write a paper in this wonderful woman. What happened to her is deep-rooted on systematic racism.
They will never pay her family, for the enormous profits they've made from her.
She will live on forever in medicine
Miss Lacks' family should have more than enough money by now from the government and pharmaceutical companies around the world to make sure that their families have generational wealth for years to come but they don't...and that is a damn shame. 💊
Thankyou queen...cervivor here❤
I think the Lacks family should be compensated. It's a problem for the pharmaceutical companies though because they don't want to have to compensate anyone for any tissue or blood specimens they take. Currently, if you visit the doctor and they remove any tissue it becomes their legal property. Whether it's skin, muscle, or bone they don't have to give you a penny if they make a profit from research they did using your cells.
Just pay the family already!
Keep fighting for financial compensation. They stole her body without consent and continue to make money off her cells.
So she had the worst case of cancer ever? Shame on them stealing from her instead of getting consent.
Lacks family would be multimillionares if they get the credit for their relative. Even if her cells were very useful to the medical field, it's unjust that they took her cells away and made piles of profit without the family knowing. It's stealing...
I'm reading a book about her right now
Never really made sense to me how do you go get cancer treatment and not consent to it being removed?
How can you take cancer out of someone's body without consent I feel like if you walk into the hospital looking for cancer treatment you already consent to having it removed.
While I'm sure she didn't consent to having this done to it.
I think it was more that she never consented to it being used for research
She did consent to some of the treatment but the cervical biopsy wasn't part of that consent. The doctor took it w/o asking. They also didn't tell her that the treatments they gave her would render her barren. Her family is certain she would have refused the treatment had she known the outcome because she wanted to have more children. If you haven't read her biography by Rebecca Skloot, give it a look. It's an utterly fascinating book and a quick read. 🙂
Also, the treatments were too strong and were going to kill her regardless of the cancer. The skin over her stomach turned black from the radiation. Doctors were in the early stages of understanding how to treat cancer at that time.
And DeSantis wants to rename Forty Liberty, Fort Bragg, after a confederate general.
This would be a great movie or series rather than a story of Greek Queen changed into a black one just because she's popular and the proof of that she is black is that the mother of that professor said " I don't care what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was black "
There is a movie already.
Henrietta madam ko pranaam
😊🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌸🌸🌸🌸
Why not use her actual name in the title
It’s her full name
It's right up there in the description lol
For the clicks.
because this is going to generate more curiosity… and in turn more clicks on the video
This woman has saved lives but here comes the bitterness and selfishness that spews within this race
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
DeSatan will ban all her books next.
Her family need to be paid!
And only because she's....
No informed consent?
It happens every day.
0:57 isn’t that the woman who took another passenger’s seat on a united Airlines flight and end up playing the race card, saying that she was the victim! 💀
Rosa parks would be so proud … 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🎉
Yep. Sheila Jackson Lee and she does nothing for the people in her district who live in poverty.
Oh my God it is!!!
@@TexasHomesteaders Do you do anything for your people or neighborhood?!?!
Ain't no way lmao
She did nothing, it's the doctors and scientists who should get the medal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
God, you're warped!
Welcome to society but she should still be posthumously rewarded since it is not consensual during the time.
Good,then they dont need me.
I was smiling throughout this video until she said the family was suing. Ruins the whole thing and makes it seem like they were only doing it for the money
And
How dare the people that actually have a connection to her benefit.🤡
So you were smiling at the part where doctors literally stole cells from this lady to make profit WITHOUT her consent and didn’t tell the dead woman’s family and just made million maybe billions of dollars without any of it going to the family? idk about you but i wouldn’t want someone making a profit off of my dead relative without anyone’s consent
How does it ruin the video when those were HER CELLS they made millions off of without her consent?
The family shouldn’t have to be suing they should’ve been given monetary ownership of her cell why is it OK for the pharmaceutical company to make money????
Look what they did to Aunt jamima... they took it away after decades.