Health Science: Trust, Compliance, and Healthcare Outcomes

Vocabulary flashcards covering key historical cases of medical mistrust, health aspects of slavery and immigration, and ethical considerations in research.

Henrietta Lacks

A patient in Baltimore, MD whose cervical cancer cells were taken at Johns Hopkins without informed consent, giving rise to immortal HeLa cells used for major medical discoveries.

HeLa Cells

An immortal cell line derived without informed consent from Henrietta Lacks during her cervical cancer treatment at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD.

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

A clinical study in Tuskegee, AL involving Treponema Pallidum (syphilis) where effective treatment with penicillin was intentionally withheld, leading to unnecessary morbidity and mortality.

Treponema Pallidum

The bacterium responsible for causing syphilis, which was studied in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.

Sullivan's Island

A medical assessment station in Charleston, South Carolina, which served as North America's main port of entry and quarantine site for hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans arriving via the Middle Passage.

Middle Passage

The transatlantic journey undertaken by slave ships carrying captured Africans to slave markets across North America, South America, and the West Indies.

Colic

Pain that begins and ends rapidly, usually due to cramps and muscle contractions, listed among illnesses associated with slavery.

Dropsy

Also known as edema, defined as the buildup of fluid in the body's tissues.

Yaws

A bacterial infection affecting the skin and bones, identified as one of the illnesses associated with slavery.

Apoplexy

A medical term defined in the lecture as bleeding within the internal organs.

Ellis Island

A U.S. government immigration station opened in 1892 and closed in 1954, where approximately 12,000,000 immigrants underwent legal and medical inspections.

The Isle of Tears

A nickname for Ellis Island earned because approximately 20% of immigrants passing through were at least temporarily detained.

Puerto Rico Contraceptive Studies

Clinical trials in the 1950s for the birth control Pill conducted on poor women of color in Puerto Rico without informed consent about side effects or trial status.

Pincus and Rock

The lead researchers behind the 1950s Puerto Rico birth control trials who were later accused of deceit, colonialism, and exploitation.