All 23 Uses of

autopsy

in

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

She talked about a man she didn't name, saying, "I didn't think it was fit for him to steal my mother medical record and autopsy papers.†
Chpt 1.6

As Henrietta's body cooled in the "colored" freezer, Gey asked her doctors if they'd do an autopsy.†
Chpt 2.12

Though no law or code of ethics required doctors to ask permission before taking tissue from a living patient, the law made it very clear that performing an autopsy or removing tissue from the dead without permission was illegal.†
Chpt 2.12

The way Day remembers it, someone from Hopkins called to tell him Henrietta had died, and to ask permission for an autopsy, and Day said no. A few hours later, when Day went to Hopkins with a cousin to see Henrietta's body and sign some papers, the doctors asked again about the autopsy.†
Chpt 2.12

The way Day remembers it, someone from Hopkins called to tell him Henrietta had died, and to ask permission for an autopsy, and Day said no. A few hours later, when Day went to Hopkins with a cousin to see Henrietta's body and sign some papers, the doctors asked again about the autopsy.†
Chpt 2.12

Day's cousin said it wouldn't hurt, so eventually Day agreed and signed an autopsy permission form.†
Chpt 2.12

Now there she was with a corpse, a stack of petridishes, and the pathologist, Dr. Wilbur, who stood hunched over the autopsy table.†
Chpt 2.12

Day wanted Henrietta to be presentable for the funeral, so he'd only given permission for a partial autopsy, which meant no incision into her chest and no removal of her limbs or head.†
Chpt 2.12

When Henrietta died, Day had agreed to let her doctors do an autopsy because they'd told him it might help his children someday.†
Chpt 3.23

Then, without warning, Deborah turned the pages of Gold's book and stumbled on the details of her mother's demise: excruciating pain, fever, and vomiting; poisons building in her blood; a doctor writing, "Discontinue all medication and treatments except analgesics;" and the wreckage of Henrietta's body during the autopsy: The dead woman's arms had been pulled up and back so that the pathologist could get at her chest ...the body had been split down the middle and opened wide ...greyish white tumor globules ...filled the corpse.†
Chpt 3.26

Then she asked Mary to tell the story about seeing her mother's red toenails during the autopsy—the one Deborah had read in Gold's book.†
Chpt 3.28

Cofield then filed a lawsuit against Deborah, Lawrence, Courtney Speed, the Henrietta Lacks Health History Museum Foundation, and a long list of Hopkins officials: the president, the medical records administrator, an archivist, Richard Kidwell, and Grover Hutchins, the director of autopsy services.†
Chpt 3.28

He demanded access to the medical records and autopsy reports of Henrietta and Deborah's sister, Elsie, as well as damages of $15,000 per defendant, plus interest.†
Chpt 3.28

And I want to get the medical record and autopsy report on my sister.†
Chpt 3.31

"These are autopsy reports," he said, opening the first book as the scent of mildew filled the room.†
Chpt 3.33

The photo was attached to the top corner of Elsie's autopsy report, which Lurz and I began reading, saying occasional phrases out loud: "diagnosis of idiocy" ..."directly connected with syphilis" ..."self-induced vomiting by thrusting fingers down her throat for six months prior to death."†
Chpt 3.33

She handed them to the man, who grabbed the autopsy report book and started reading.†
Chpt 3.33

Can Deborah get a copy of that autopsy report?
Chpt 3.33 *

autopsy = examination of the dead body -- typically to determine the cause of death

Each time she panicked, she'd pat the bed and say, "Where's my sister autopsy report?" or "Oh no, where'd I put my room key?"†
Chpt 3.34

She moved across the room to the other bed, where she lay on her stomach and started reading her sister's autopsy report.†
Chpt 3.34

She sat down next to me and pointed to a different word in her sister's autopsy report.†
Chpt 3.34

Definition:

an examination and dissection of a dead body -- typically to determine the cause of death