However, in the case of the Lacks, there was no fightback. Being a poor black family, they followed everything the white doctors told them. After Henrietta died, the hospital asked her widowed husband if they could do an autopsy on her. While he initially told them no, they lied and told him they wanted to do it because it could help his children, when in reality they wanted to study him for his cells. He then added that he always trusted what the doctor said for the simple fact that he was a doctor (188-189). This was the norm for anyone who was uneducated and a minority at that time and one of the main tenets of health sociology is that people respond to health problems in a way that fits their norms And