... to begin radium treatments). Second, because of her racial and socio-economic status, Henrietta was vulnerable and may have felt she didn't have much of a choice when it came to giving consent. In 1951, at Hopkins, when Henrietta received treatment, the doctors, nurses, and technicians were white (31). Henrietta was ... scientific research. Henrietta had suffered and died, but her cells lived on. The HeLa cells had helped countless numbers of people. Skloot quotes Sonny, Henrietta's son, as saying, "I just hope Hopkins and some of the other folks who benefitted off her cells will do so...

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