.KeishaBlain: What happened to Henrietta Lacks must be understood as part of a larger pattern of Black people’s bodies being used as objects of experimentation and violence in the medical field.
, a biotechnology company, on Oct. 4, alleging that the company continues to unfairly profit from the sale and use of HeLa cells, the name given to the tissue taken from Lacks, a Black woman, without her consent in 1951.
The lawsuit, filed on the 70th anniversary of Lacks’ death, represents a major challenge to the medical industry’s ability to endlessly profit from Lacks’ cells, which scientists have used in research since 1951. The suit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, which took in $32.2 billion in, is the culmination of a decadeslong effort on behalf of the Lacks family to seek justice and shed light on racism within the medical field.
The lawsuit represents a major challenge to the medical industry’s ability to endlessly profit from Lacks’ cells, which scientists have used since 1951. Born in 1920, Lacks was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in January 1951, where she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. While undergoing treatment at Hopkins, her physician collected tissue samples for research. As documented in Rebecca Skloot’s bestselling book,"
," this was a standard practice at the hospital and was done without the consent of patients. When Lacks died on Oct. 4, 1951, the cells that doctors had collected from her went on to fuel medical research for decades.
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