User:Brian Seong

About me
My name is Brian (Jongwoo) Seong, and I'm from South Korea. This is my fourth quarter here, and I have been here for 10 months. My major is aviation maintenance. I will take aviation classes from this fall quarter.

My Wikipedia activities
I don't like difficult historical or scientific topics. I like the topics about the cars, animals, music, or interesting stories. If I have a long-term assignment in this class, I will do my assignment with a topic that is close to my interests. As a volunteer, I will finish my assignments that I received, and I will try it as best as I can.

Article Evaluation
I've been interested in Henrietta Lacks since last year. I read a book about a black woman named Henrietta Lacks last year. It's a book about her true story of medical history and racism. Usually, HeLa cells are mentioned mainly about her. HeLa cells were the first human cells successfully cloned in 1955,and they are now using in many medical studies as immortal cells. Racism is also an important topic with regard to the cell. I know that discrimination about black women is also often mentioned about her, so I wanted to evaluate her article through this assignment. I visited the Henrietta Lacks page on Wikipedia, and I found three aspects of it worth commenting on: reliability, a lack of comments on racism, and up-to-date.

Reliability
I would like to appreciate the reliability of this article. Through the Medical and scientific research section, I could see good descriptions of the professional medical facts, and good explanations of her immortal cells. Also, there are quite a lot of citations on this page. There are some references listed at the bottom. This page mentions her stories and facts through the links. I think the citations on this page are reliable sources.

A lack of comments on racism
In the Consent issues and privacy concerns section, unauthorized use and research of her cells in the lab without family and individual permission is shown, but her explanation for racism is lacking. The other facts I know are not there. One of the facts is that doctors at John Hopkins Hospital did not treat her often even though she had cancer, and she finally died. She remained at the hospital until her death. A partial autopsy showed that the cancer had metastasized throughout her entire body. She had enough time to get treatment. I think about this: If she were a white woman, would she have been treated well?

Up-to-date
I think this article is up-to-date. She was born in 1920 and has a lot of history in chronological order. Nevertheless, the history of 2018 is recorded on this page, and it was last edited in February 2020. If the article is too old and doesn't keep updating, It will be hard for people to find it, and won't find it, so I think this article is good in the up-to-date aspect.

Summary
In conclusion, I'd rate this page as "okay." The article gained reliability through enough medical descriptions and sources of the HeLa cells. Also, it's up-to-date and updated steadily. Although there is a lack of explanations of racism she experienced as a black woman, the article informed people of her stories and history of Hela cells. Therefore, I would like to recommend this article to people who don't know about Henrietta Lacks.