However, in the case of the Lacks there was no reaction. Being a poor black family, they followed everything the white doctors told them. After Henrietta's death, the hospital asked her widowed husband if they could do an autopsy on her. Even though he initially told them no, they lied and told him they wanted to perform it because it might help his children, when in reality they wanted to study it for its cells. He then goes on to say that he always stuck to what the doctor said for the simple fact that he was a doctor (188-189). This was the norm for all those who were uneducated and constituted a minority at that time and one of the fundamental principles of the sociology of health is that people respond to health problems in a way consistent with their norms and