Summary Of The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Skloot states on page 130 of her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, that a doctor named Southam was withholding health information from patients. The reasoning behind Southam holding back the patient's health information is as followed. As Skloot says, “ The deception was for his benefit-- he was withholding information because patients might have refused to participate in his study if they’d known what he was injecting.” (Skloot 130) I believe with the information and/or the evidence given to me by Skloot that the rest of the excerpt is relevant and sufficient to support her claim.
Skloot tells us that Southam would have more than likely continued withholding patients health information if it were not for Emanuel Mandel and the Jewish